Man Sells COVID-19 Infection For $38, Includes Virus Liquid For Self-Infection

A man in the Netherlands was arrested for allegedly running a website that sold tubes containing the COVID-19 virus for people who want to get infected.

The unnamed man, who was accused of fraud following his arrest, offered the so-called "corona kit" containing the liquid coronavirus as well as a COVID-19 self-test for €33.50 ($38) on the website jaikwilcorona.nl, Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reported.

"Do you want to determine for yourself when you become infected with the coronavirus? With the corona kit you can make that choice yourself," the website, which has since become inaccessible, claimed.

The kits were shipped by mail, and they were not older than three months "so you can be sure that the latest mutations and variants have also been included," according to the site.

Potential buyers were promised that they would be able to obtain a certificate of recovery from the Netherlands’ Municipal Health Service after overcoming the self-inflicted disease, which would allow them to "regain access to nightlife without vaccination,” the report said.

"With this deliberate contamination, the suspect was probably responding to the 2G policy," a spokeswoman for the Dutch Ministry of Finance's Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD) said.

Only people who have been vaccinated or have recovered from COVID-19 can enter certain locations under the Netherlands’ 2G policy, a majority-backed measure that has sparked protests in the country.

The country’s Health and Youth Care Inspectorate, which announced last month that it would take action against the people behind the corona kit website, claimed that the initiative was "humiliating," according to the report.

"The coronavirus is dangerous. It can make you seriously ill. And you can infect others, who in turn can become seriously ill. Anyone who infects themselves deliberately endangers public health," Margreeth Fernhout, the government health agency's spokeswoman, said.

The man was released after questioning last Friday.

Further investigation will have to show if the man sold anything, how much he sold and if what he sold worked, a FIOD spokesperson was cited as saying by 7News.com.au.

The agency has warned against self-infection, with a spokesperson claiming that "those who deliberately infect themselves are culpably putting public health at risk."