A gang in China makes a fake COVID-19 vaccine. They mix salt and water. The gang starts to make the vaccine in September 2020. They sell the vaccine to China and to other countries, too. Police do not know which countries. Chinese police arrest 80 people from the gang. Police find more than 3,000 shots of the vaccine. China has problems with vaccines in the past. Many Chinese people do not believe that Chinese vaccines are good. Now the situation is different. People are afraid of the coronavirus. Many people want to get a vaccine. They do not mind if it is a Chinese vaccine. Difficult words: gang (a group of people who do something bad), mix (to put two or more things together), mind (to worry or care about something)Chinese police arrested 80 people who were making and selling fake COVID-19 vaccine. The people belonged to a gang, and they started to make the vaccine in September 2020. Police found more than 3,000 shots of the vaccine, and they found out that the gang sold the vaccine in China and in other countries, too. The police did not know which countries they were. The vaccine could not work because it was a mixture of salt and water. China had problems with fake vaccines in the past, and many people did not believe that Chinese vaccines were good. Now the situation is different, and more than 70% of people said that they would agree to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Difficult words: fake (something which looks real but it is not real), gang (a group of people who do something illegal), mixture (when you mix two or more things together).Chinese police have arrested more than 80 suspected members of a criminal gang that was manufacturing and selling fake COVID-19 vaccines. According to state media, the group had been active since September 2020. Authorities seized more than 3,000 doses of fake shots that were made of a simple saline solution, and they were being sold in China and in other countries. However, it wasn´t clear which ones. China has a history of vaccine scandals as a result of manufacturing and business practices. In 2019, a government crackdown introduced harsher penalties for producing counterfeits, and it led to widespread distrust of homegrown vaccines in China. However, people´s attitudes are changing and a survey suggests that 74% of people would take one if it was offered to them. Domestically, China has given out more than 24 million doses that were made by the state-owned company, Sinopharma. Difficult words: saline solution (a mixture of salt and water), scandal (an action or event that is regarded as morally or legally wrong and it causes public anger), counterfeit (something that is made to look like the original of something else and it is used illegally).
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