Actress Mimi Chakraborty falls ill, days after taking fake COVID-19 vaccine

Actress and Trinamool Congress member of Parliament(MP), Mimi Chakraborty is reportedly unwell days after taking COVID-19 vaccine at a camp which later turned out to be a fake vaccination drive. According to a report published in Hindustan Times Bangla, the MP felt uncomfortable on Saturday, just four days after the fake vaccine. After initial check-up by the house physician, the MP has been asked to take complete rest. Although she has received medical advice to get herself admitted to a hospital, Mimi has reportedly refused, opting for home treatment instead. 

The actress was showing symptoms of acute stomach ache and profuse sweating. For the unversed, Mimi attended the drive and even got herself vaccinated to encourage people to take the COVID-19 vaccinations to contain the spread of the virus. "I took Covishield vaccine at the camp to motivate people for taking jabs. But I never received a confirmation message from CoWIN," she said. Impersonating as an IAS officer, one Debanjan Deb held two vaccine camps in the city where thousands of people, including TMC MP Mimi Chakraborty, are believed to have been taken their jabs. After the operation was busted, the cops seized fake labels pasted on several vials of an antibiotic injection used in place of the vaccines. The Kolkata police later said that Debanjan Deb, the person behind the fraud, had been impersonating as a joint commissioner of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) for the last four months and has duped a few people of several lakhs of rupees on the pretext of helping them get tenders of the civic body. It was with this money that he was organising the fake vaccine camps, the police indicated, adding that further investigation into the case is underway.