New Delhi: In a movie-like flip of occasions, a thief, who pillaged the federal government hospital in Haryana ended up returning the looted gadgets after realising they had been COVID-19 vaccine vials.
As quickly because the thief grew to become conscious of the significance of the stolen gadgets, he left the vials at a tea stall exterior a police station with a note, IANS reported.
The apology note learn, “Sorry, did not know it had COVID-19 vaccine.”
Over 1,700 doses of coronavirus vaccine had been stolen from the Civil hospital in Haryana’s Jind, PTI quoted a police official as saying on Thursday. A complete of 1,270 doses of Covishield and 440 of Covaxin had been stolen from the hospital, SHO of Civil Lines police station Rajender Singh mentioned.
“The accused did not touch any other vaccine, medicine, cash, etc. Lying in the store,” he added. The incident had taken place on Wednesday night.
The matter got here to gentle when a sanitation employee discovered the locks of the shop and deep freezer damaged on Thursday morning.
The SHO had mentioned a case was registered in reference to the incident and police had been investigating the matter.
(With inputs from businesses)
