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Assam Rifles foils smuggling of COVID-19 vaccines and test kits to Myanmar

| @indiablooms | Feb 28, 2022, at 05:47 am

Imphal/IBNS: Tengnoupal Battalion under the aegis of IGAR (South) foiled an attempt to smuggle COVID vaccines and RAT kits from India to Myanmar on Saturday.

During a search operation, troops of Assam Rifles intercepted a vehicle moving from Imphal to Moreh in Manipur.

On detailed search of the vehicle, 200 vials of Covisheild vaccine (2000 doses) and 299 Rapid Antigen Test kits were found concealed in the body of the vehicle.

The two traffickers traveling in the vehicle were detained and subsequently handed over to the Police authorities along with the seized medical stores.

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)

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