Seizure of more than 3,000 Covid-19 quick test kits

By Quang Hung/Ngoc Loan

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VCN – Some 3,100 Covid-19 quick test kits without invoices have been seized by authorities in Ha Noi.

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Seizure of more than 3,000 Covid-19 quick test kits

Infringing goods.

Market surveillance officials worked with the Anti-Smuggling Team detected a trafficking ring of foreign quick test kits without invoices in two facilities in Hoang Mai and Thanh Xuan Districts, the Vietnam Directorate of Market Surveillance said on Sunday.

The authorities conducted an inspection of the reflexology massage facility at room 304, HH3B Linh Dam apartment building, Hoang Liet ward, Hoang Mai district, Hanoi.

The facility’s owner is Ho Thi Phuong Thanh, 38, residing in Hoang Mai, Ha Noi.

The authorities seized 1,000 NASOCHECKcomfort quick test kits made in Germany. All these kits lacked invoices.

Thanh said that she bought these kits from Nguyen Tien Vinh, 42, in Thanh Xuan District, Ha Noi.

The authorities inspected the business establishment of Vinh and seized 2,100 NOSOCHECKcomfort quick test kits.

The case is under investigation.

By Quang Hung/Ngoc Loan

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