The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has revealed that the vaccine for the new coronavirus, which was planned to be used for advance vaccination of medical staff, has broken down in the storage freezer, making it impossible to use up to 1000 doses of the vaccine. ..
According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, a medical institution that has been vaccinated in advance for medical staff reported on the 1st that the ultra-low temperature freezer = deep freezer for storing vaccines broke down at midnight on the 26th of last month. It means that there was.
As a result, up to 1032 vaccines stored were no longer available.
The name of the medical institution cannot be revealed.
On the 2nd, the contractor will collect the deep freezer from the medical institution and investigate the cause of the failure, and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare will consider measures to prevent recurrence based on the investigation results.