After a nurse wasted a "Pfizer" bottle, Germany adopts the "four eyes" procedure

A nurse did not find the vaccine had fallen from her hand on the ground, except to give six recipients doses of saline solution pretending that she had given them the vaccine, in order to cover up her dropping the Pfizer-Bionic vial from her hand and wasting its contents.

After the nurse confided what happened to her to one of her colleagues, she reported what happened to the authorities, on Saturday.

The German police subjected the nurse to an investigation, after admitting to replacing 6 doses of anti-Corona vaccines with a saline solution.

According to "AFP," the authorities asked 200 people who received the vaccine at a Red Cross center in Friesland, last Wednesday, to urgently submit an antibody test to determine the identities of the six people who received saline solutions instead of vaccines.

The Wilhelmshaven / Friesland police in northern Germany said in a statement that they had opened an investigation for possible "bodily harm" by the nurse, while stressing that the saline solutions did not pose a danger to the people who were injected with them.

The statement added, "The nurse said that what prompted her to do this was to avoid informing anyone about the vial that fell from her hand."

"I was very shocked by what happened," said Sven Ambrose, director of the Friesland region, adding that the authorities have now introduced a procedure called "four eyes" at the vaccination center to ensure that a person is not alone with vials of vaccines.

The Pfizer vaccine is usually diluted with saline before it is administered, and the nurse's job was to prepare the injection when she accidentally dropped a small vaccine vial, resulting in damage to its contents.

The local district administration has set up a hotline for people who were vaccinated on the day of the accident to apply for testing.