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First USA COVID-19 anti-fraud case announced

By Sara Lewis

TheUnited States Department of Justice (DOJ), on 22 March [2020], announced thefirst action in federal court against fraud related to the COVID-19 pandemicafter it obtained a temporary restraining order against a Texas-based websiteselling a bogus vaccine - coronavirusmedicalkit.com.

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