China has unleashed a campaign to neutralize operations of criminal networks that deal on frozen food, medical supplies, and fake COVID-19 vaccines by sea, local media reported on Wednesday.

Beijing.- The China Coast Guard is in charge of the offensive and emphasizes the entry into the country of cold-chain seafood, meat, or other products, whose import fell amid several reports here due to the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus on packaging surfaces.

Those forces are also targeting the trafficking with health supplies used to fight the Covid-19 pandemic and the emerging business of fake vaccines against the disease, Xinhua news agency reported.

Recent operations led to the arrests of 70 individuals involved in 21 cases and revealed that a citizen surnamed Kong has since August manufactured and sold about 58,000 doses of vaccines abroad, generating 18 million yuan (2.78 million dollars) in profits.

Earlier, police detained 80 traffickers in Beijing, Jiangsu, and Shandong provinces, and seized 3,000 doses of vaccines allegedly developed by Sinopharm and Sinovac companies. (PL)