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Hundreds of people in Uganda injected with water instead of Covid vaccineMORE than 800 people in Uganda were given fake Covid vaccines which were made of mostly water. The counterfeit jabs were administered over May and June during a deadly surge of the coronavirus in the East African nation, when new infections soared to record highs of about 1,700 cases per day. The fraudsters targeted people looking to pay for immunisation, including corporate employees, at a time when vaccines were in short supply, said Warren Naamara, the director of a health services monitoring unit under the presidency….