Market monitors in two districts of Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City have discovered a large volume of COVID-19 test kits and other medical equipment smuggled from China.

The smuggled goods, including rapid test kits for coronavirus, disinfectant sprayers, blood oxygen meters and oxygen cylinders, were found in a container at a warehouse in Binh Tan District, said the Ho Chi Minh Market Surveillance Department on Friday.

Particularly, the quantity of oxygen generators seized amounts to 13,828, the department reported.

Most of the smuggled products were made in China, without sub labels in Vietnamese as required by law.

There were no invoices or other documents related to the goods, which included a number of commodities showing signs of violations of industrial property rights of some trademarks that are being protected in Vietnam.

The total value of the smuggled goods is estimated at billions of Vietnam dong (VND1 billion = US$43,800).

One day earlier, at another inspection at Tin Thuc International Trading Co., Ltd. in Tan Phu District, the department found and seized 80 rapid COVID-19 test kits and 30 blood oxygen meters without invoices and relevant documents.

Similar to the case in Binh Tan, all these goods were made in China and had no sub labels in Vietnamese.

In addition to such smuggled medical devices, the department, in conjunction with local police, also seized more than 67,200 medicine tablets without documents from a house in Binh Tan on Tuesday.

The pills, worth around VND200 million ($8,750), were brought illegally from China into Vietnam and advertised to be capable of curing COVID-19.

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