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Health Minister Dr. Irving McIntyre said his ministry has a \u201cline of defense\u201d in place at the airport for any traveler who arrives in Dominica with a fake vaccination certificate.<\/p>\n
He was speaking during Prime Minister Roosevelt’s Skerrit Annou Pale talk show last weekend.<\/p>\n
In recent times this has been a major challenge for some countries around the world.\u00a0 In April, 2021, it was reported that a woman from Birmingham, Alabama was arrested in the U.S. Virgin Islands for allegedly submitting an altered negative COVID-19 test result to the online travel portal.<\/p>\n
It is also reported that scammers are selling Covid-19 vaccination cards online.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we have done, we\u2019ve had samples from most of our Caribbean islands so that we have an idea of how their vaccination certificate looks like,\u201d Dr. McIntyre said. \u201cVaccination cards we see the signature, we see the stamp so we have an idea of what it looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. McIntyre \u00a0continued,\u00a0 \u201cWe definitely got all of this from the region and even some of them internationally just to see what it looks like, so at least we can compare and contrast and our staff have been fully informed of that and they are aware.\u201d<\/p>\n
He mentioned that the airport staff has been educated on identifying fake vaccination certificates.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is where the symptomatic and questionable cases come in,\u201d he stated. \u201cIf we see a questionable vaccination certification, we do a rapid antigen test…so we have a line of defense for that, \u00a0that is our plan B\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health Minister Dr. Irving McIntyre said his ministry has a \u201cline of defense\u201d in place at the airport for any traveler who arrives in Dominica with a fake vaccination certificate. He was speaking during Prime Minister Roosevelt’s Skerrit Annou Pale…","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":267935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,282,17,235,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-covid-19-news","category-health","category-homepage-carousel","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n