According to a report from Japan's "Oriental News" on August 31, local time, following the Modena's new crown vaccine, the Pfizer's new crown vaccine in the United States was also found to be mixed with foreign bodies in Japan.
According to reports, a nurse at a mass vaccination venue in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan discovered that a long black thread-like foreign body was floating in a bottle of Pfizer vaccine being used.
At present, only one bottle of vaccine was found to contain foreign bodies.
In addition, 304 people have been vaccinated with the same batch of product number vaccines, but no health abnormalities have been found in the vaccinators.
According to the report, the local government has stopped using the same batch of Pfizer vaccine and used other batches to continue vaccination.
Pfizer responded that when medical staff insert the needle into the vaccine bottle, if it is inserted diagonally, it may bring the rubber crumbs in the bottle cap into the vaccine, it should be inserted vertically.
Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare stated on the 26th that multiple vaccination sites reported that foreign bodies were found in unused Modena vaccine, and the government decided to suspend the use of 1.63 million doses of the vaccine.
On the 28th, the new crown vaccine large-scale vaccination center in Okinawa Prefecture found impurities in another batch of Modena vaccine.
(Producing Zhou Jing)
Editor in charge: [Zhang Aolin]