China News Service, March 4th. According to the Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK), the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan recently received a report from a medical institution that the institution’s ultra-low temperature freezer used to store the new crown vaccine failed, resulting in a maximum of 1032 doses of vaccine. scrapped.
The survey results show that this is not a mechanical failure, but a lack of power supply caused by multiple devices sharing the same power source.
Data map: On January 7, local time, in Tokyo, Japan, a passerby passed by an empty outdoor restaurant.
According to previous reports, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare stated that on the morning of March 1, the staff of this medical institution discovered that the temperature of the freezer set at minus 80 degrees Celsius rose to 27 degrees, and there were 1032 shots in the library that could have been administered. The dose of vaccine.
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan revealed that the company that provided freezer boxes to medical institutions launched an investigation on the cause of the accident on March 2. The results showed that it was not a mechanical failure, but a lack of power supply caused by multiple devices sharing the same power supply.
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan has previously informed the medical institutions responsible for the first vaccination to ensure that they are connected to a dedicated power source when using ultra-low temperature freezers.
Based on the survey results, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare once again reminded all medical institutions across Japan to pay close attention.
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.