Vietnam Seizes Hundreds of Illegally Imported Boxes of Medicine, COVID-19 Rapid Test Kits
Vietnam Customs' Northern Anti-Smuggling Enforcement Team seized four import shipments of COVID-19 rapid test kits, finding them to have been illegally brought into the country, state-run CustomsNews said. A physical inspection of the shipments at Noi Bai International Airport in…
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Hanoi Aug. 27 led to the seizure of the test kits along with 330 boxes of Arbidol medicine, marketed as a cure for the virus. Arbidol is used to treat influenza in Russia and China. The goods were imported from Russia. The items These are subject to conditional imports, but lacked proper permits. Customs agents also seized 5,980 packs of Heets e-cigarettes and 60 bottles of undeclared foreign alcohol, which also lacked proper permits, the report said.