2 NY Nurses Allegedly Solid COVID Vaccination Playing cards, Made $1.5 Million

New York authorities have arrested two Lengthy Island nurses who officers say made greater than $1.5 million by forging COVID-19 vaccination playing cards.

Julie DeVuono, the proprietor of Wild Baby Pediatric Healthcare and her worker, Marissa Urraro, have been charged with felony forgery, authorities say. DeVuono was additionally charged with providing a false instrument for submitting.

Officers say the 2 ladies entered the false data on the playing cards into New York’s immunization database.

The Suffolk County district lawyer’s workplace mentioned the ladies offered the pretend playing cards for $220 for adults and $85 for kids.

Officers say about $900,000 in money was seized from DeVuono’s house.

Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s prime minister, is in self-isolation till Tuesday after a doable COVID publicity on a flight to Auckland, officers mentioned Saturday.

“The prime minister is asymptomatic and is feeling properly,” her workplace mentioned. She is scheduled to be examined for the virus Sunday.

India’s well being ministry mentioned Sunday that 234,281 individuals had examined constructive for COVID within the earlier 24-hour interval.

In the meantime, greater than 100,000 day by day circumstances of the coronavirus had been reported in Russia for the primary time Saturday because the extremely contagious omicron variant spreads all through the nation. The federal government’s coronavirus process pressure reported a report excessive 113,122 new circumstances, a sevenfold enhance from earlier in January.