Chinese citizens are faking coronavirus tests to leave Russia by iamsternlicht
Vyacheslav Prokofyev\TASS via Getty ImagesThe passengers provided fake negative nucleic acid test results, a requirement for people leaving Russia for China are required to take within five days of their departure, says the Chinese embassy in Moscow.
It is unclear if they were actually positive for the virus or faked the negative tests for another reason. Though this episode was reported by the embassy on Sunday, it reported a separate and nearly identical incident on May 29. The passengers who faked the tests are under investigation and will “bear corresponding legal responsibilities,” said the embassy on its WeChat account on Monday.
The Chinese embassy says that the test counterfeiters “caused great harm to the health and safety of the passengers and crews of the flights, and undermined China’s domestic epidemic prevention work,” according toIn April, Chinese officials closed the border to Russia, calling it the “frontline” of the country’s mission to avoid a second wave of coronavirus .Experts around the world have been perplexed by Russia’s official coronavirus death rate, which was 13 fatalities per million in April .
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