From private vaccination schemes to public office misuse of power.
Covid-19 vaccines are hot property. And some people will do whatever they can to get them as soon as possible.
Nefarious use of public office has not relented for the pandemic: officials in Austria, Germany and Spain; Parisian private hospital board members and donors; Argentinian, Peruvian and Lebanese ministers; and Malaysian political aides have been caught red-handed cutting the queue or enabling cronies to secure jabs.
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