DIRK WAEM via Getty ImagesA nurse injects a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, during a vaccination operation at the “Woonzorgcentrum Sint-Pieters” nursing home on December 28, 2020 in Puurs, in the Flemish region of Belgium, when the country begins its national vaccination campaign. to fight the spread of the new coronavirus. – The doses of the vaccine were transported earlier from the University Hospital of Leuven to the residential care home, as the vaccination program begins with the most vulnerable. Belgium is the country with the highest number of deaths compared to its population with 165 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants. (Photo by Dirk WAEM / POOL / AFP) (Photo by DIRK WAEM / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)
Eight employees of a nursing home were mistakenly injected with 5 doses of the virus vaccine each. It happened yesterday in Germany, in the city of Stralsund. Four of them are being observed in hospital as a precautionary measure, having experienced mild flu symptoms soon after. Biontech has announced that, in the testing phase, it has administered doses higher than those currently expected in the candidates, without serious consequences.
