During a visit to the Nizhny Novgorod region, the deputy head of the Ministry of Health Sergei Glagolev called the use of fake vaccination certificates against coronavirus infection self-deception. This is reported on website regional governments.

“The use of such is deceiving oneself and those with whom a person communicates – his relatives, friends, friends and colleagues,” Glagolev said, recalling the criminal liability for falsifying documents and selling fake QR codes. In the event that such actions entail the death of a person, the article will be re-qualified to “more difficult”, he added.

The deputy named all the current restrictions and restrictions that they were introduced only to protect vulnerable categories of the population, with chronic diseases that carry COVID-19 quite hard.

Earlier, the chairman of the Federation Council committee on constitutional legislation, Andrei Klishas, ​​said that for the purchase of a fake certificate, you can get up to a year in prison. Forgery of QR codes, which were necessary to visit public catering establishments in Moscow in the summer, faces two years in prison or a fine of 40 thousand rubles, he recalled.

Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova states that those who falsify vaccination certificates and QR codes, in addition to breaking the law, are responsible for the continuation of the epidemic in Russia.