Last month, Matsuda Town, Kanagawa Prefecture, revealed that the refrigerator had been turned off at a municipal clinic and 120 people had been vaccinated with vaccines that had been stored at room temperature.
The town has decided to test all of them for antibodies in the future because the inoculation may not be fully effective.
According to Matsuda Town, 120 people were vaccinated in the middle of last month at a municipal clinic that had been stored at room temperature in a refrigerator that was turned off.
At the clinic, two days ago, on the 13th of last month, a power outage occurred, so I connected the refrigerator to an emergency battery, but after the power outage was resolved, I forgot to return it to normal power.
The vaccine may have been stored at room temperature for up to two days after the battery ran out, but the doctor at the clinic decided not to discard the vaccine but to inoculate it.
The town, which received a report from the clinic on the 2nd, has been contacting the inoculated person and apologizing since the 4th, but so far no information on health hazards has been received.
The town has a policy of conducting antibody tests on everyone in the future and re-inoculating if necessary, saying that there is a possibility that sufficient antibodies will not be produced. We would like to make efforts to prevent recurrence, such as conducting regular confirmations. "