Portions of the Covid vaccine may have been illegitimately acquired and circulated all through pieces of New York, the state’s top doctor said Saturday.

Dr. Howard Zucker, commissioner for the state’s department of health, says his office got reports of ParCare Community Health Network “deceitfully” acquiring the vaccine and moving it to “offices in different pieces of the state.”

The vaccine portions supposedly redirected for “individuals from general society” evade the state’s arrangement to organize the immunization of forefront healthcare experts and inhabitants of long haul care offices, Zucker said. New York’s underlying rollout of the vaccine it actually restricted to medical clinics and nursing homes.

ParCare Community Health Network – distinguished by the state as a supplier in Orange County – administrations branches all through various Brooklyn areas and the Upper East Side.

On Dec. 16, the organization offered portions of the vaccine on a “the early bird gets the worm premise” through an online media post on Facebook. The post incorporated a sign-up structure for the old, individuals at high-hazard, and those with hidden conditions.

Multi week later, ParCare shared photographs of the Moderna vaccine on Twitter, saying the organization had gotten a huge number of portions.

The DOH said it wouldn’t remark past Zucker’s Saturday proclamation.

“We pay attention to this very and DOH will help State Police in a criminal examination concerning this issue. Anybody found to have intentionally taken an interest in this plan will be considered responsible to the furthest reaches of the law,” Zucker said in the Saturday official statement.

An assertion from ParCare recognized the branch of health’s request and guaranteed participation while the state examines.

“During these remarkable occasions, we have endeavored to give basic healthcare benefits and direct COVID-19 immunizations to those certified to get them under the New York State Department of Health’s rules, which incorporates cutting edge healthcare laborers and specialists on call,” the assertion read, to some degree.

Toward the finish of October, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio reported an association with ParCare to build the accessibility of fast testing in a few areas all through Borough Park and Williamsburg.