Indian police probe fake vaccine scams in two cities

A health worker inoculates a auto-rickshaw driver with a dose of a vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus, at a drive-through vaccination centre inside a shopping mall in Mumbai

Indian police said Friday that around 2,000 people were injected with fake Covid-19 vaccines in Mumbai, and another 500 -- some of them disabled -- may have suffered the same fate in a second major city. Vaccination rates rose sharply this week after the Indian government made shots free following a devastating pandemic surge in April and May. Police in Mumbai said that around 2,000 people who thought they were being vaccinated were in fact injected with a saline solution. Ten people had been arrested including two doctors at a private hospital in the financial hub, police told a news conference.