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The police busted a COVID-19 test racket and arrested a laboratory proprietor at Valanchery within the district on Tuesday.
The police mentioned Arma Laboratory, Valanchery, had swindled ₹45 lakh from the individuals by giving them pretend COVID-19 test outcomes. Dozens of individuals heading for the UAE have been stranded at Karipur and Kannur airports after their test outcomes have been made invalid.
The Valanchery lab used to perform as a franchise of Kozhikode-based Micro Laboratories, which was given COVID-19 test licence by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
The racket got here to gentle when a person from Perinthalmanna approached the police after he was discovered constructive for COVID-19 even after Arma Lab had issued him a COVID-19 damaging certificates.
The police discovered that Arma Lab had collected 2,500 swabs from the individuals and had despatched solely 496 of them to Kozhikode laboratory for testing. The police mentioned the Valanchery lab destroyed the remaining 2,004 samples and issued the purchasers pretend COVID-19 damaging certificates utilizing the letterhead of Micro Laboratories. Arma Lab had collected ₹2,750 from every one that got here for testing.
The police requested all those that examined on the Valanchery laboratory since August 16 to contact the Valanchery police station. “Apart from mere swindling, this racket might have triggered a potential COVID-19 explosion,” mentioned a senior police officer.
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