China News Service, March 2 According to the "Central News Agency" report, on March 1, local time, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan stated that a medical institution reported that the ultra-low temperature freezer used to store the new crown vaccine malfunctioned, resulting in about 1,000 inoculations. The second dose of the vaccine is voided.
On January 12, 2021, local time, in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, a local private high school entrance examination, the examination room and classroom were set up with partitions due to the epidemic to maintain social distancing.
According to reports, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan said that in the morning, the staff of this medical institution discovered that the temperature of the freezer set at minus 80 degrees Celsius had risen to 27 degrees, and the library contained 1032 doses of vaccine.
After confirming the data, it was found that the temperature of the freezer began to rise at about 11 o'clock in the evening on February 26, local time. Because the staff of this medical institution did not confirm the temperature of the freezer on the weekend, it was too late to find out.
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare stated that as of 9 o'clock that night, among the 100 freezers set up to give priority to vaccination of medical staff, only one freezer of this medical institution has received reports of malfunctions.
According to the report, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare is investigating the cause and providing countermeasures.
Japan started its new crown vaccination program on February 17, and the first batch of vaccinations were about 40,000 medical workers who had obtained consent, using vaccines produced by Pfizer in the United States.