Western Australia Police have charged a registered female nurse in Perth for allegedly faking an injection of the COVID-19 vaccine into the arm of a teenager.
The 51-year-old was arrested at her home yesterday after a doctor at a private medical clinic allegedly noticed the nurse's syringe was still full of liquid despite it going into the teen's arm, the vaccine being 'administered' and the needle discarded.
Then the nurse allegedly recorded into a database that the teenager had been successfully vaccinated against the virus, police will allege.
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It will also be alleged she entered a different nurse's name into the medical records system, to allegedly make it appear she was not involved with the 'vaccination'.
The nurse, who works at a medical centre in central Perth, arranged with her managers to be the one to give a vaccine to the teenager, police will allege.
Police arrested the Byford woman yesterday and charged her with one count of gains benefit by fraud.
She was refused bail and will appear in Perth Magistrates Court today.
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During the investigation, police were allegedly told how the nurse had approached management to get permission to give the coronavirus vaccine to somebody she knew.
Yesterday, a person known to the nurse attended the centre and arranged for their teenage child to be administered a COVID-19 vaccine, police said.
Investigations are continuing.
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