An error fraught with consequences.
Sunday January 9, a cleaning lady would have unplugged, by mistake, a refrigerator located in the town hall of Angers, reports
Ouest-France
.
The device was used to store doses of Pfizer's anti-Covid vaccine used by the city's vaccination center.
Because of this break in the cold chain, 828 vials of the messenger RNA vaccine as well as 128 vials dedicated to children had to be put in the trash, says
Ouest-France
.
Enough to achieve nearly 7,000 injections.
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If the City has decided to file a complaint, the public prosecutor of Angers ensures that "
it is not a voluntary act
", reports the regional daily. The fact remains that this is a hard blow for the city, whose vaccination center must be able "
in the long term
" to carry out 8,000 to 10,000 weekly injections, she indicated at the beginning of December.
These kinds of incidents have happened before.
Last May, an agent on duty at a clinic in Kyrgyzstan unplugged a fridge to recharge his phone, resulting in the loss of a thousand doses of the Sputnik V vaccine. A few days later, a power cut "
due to a human error
”which occurred at the Denain hospital had caused the loss of more than 500 doses of anti-Covid vaccine, reported France Bleu Hauts-de-France.