The vaccination center at Angers town hall had to resolve to put a thousand anti-Covid vials in the trash after the blunder of an employee.
A mistake with serious consequences. Sunday, January 9, a cleaning lady would have unplugged, by mistake, a refrigerator located in the town hall of Angers, reports West France . The device was used to store the doses of the Pfizer anti-Covid vaccine used by the city’s vaccination center. Because of this break in the cold chain, 828 vials of the messenger RNA vaccine as well as 128 vials dedicated to children had to be put in the trash, indicates West France. Enough to perform nearly 7000 injections.
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If the City has decided to file a complaint, the public prosecutor of Angers assures that “it is not a voluntary act“, reports the regional daily. Still, this is a hard blow for the city, whose vaccination center must be able to “term“Carry out 8,000 to 10,000 weekly injections, she indicated in early December.
These kinds of incidents have happened before. Last May, a duty worker at a clinic in Kyrgyzstan allegedly unplugged a fridge to charge his phone, resulting in the loss of a thousand doses of the Sputnik V vaccine. A few days later, a power outage “due to human error” which occurred at Denain hospital had caused the loss of more than 500 doses of anti-Covid vaccine, reported France Bleu Hauts-de-France.
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