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Eight homecare workers in Germany were individually vaccinated with five doses of the Pfizer / BioNTech covid-19 vaccine, an error during inoculation that has so far had no serious consequences, was published today.
The persons in question are seven women and one man, aged between 38 and 54, who work in a house in Stralsund, in north-eastern Germany.
They are part of the priority groups that were defined by the German authorities to receive, in an initial phase, the vaccine developed by the North American pharmaceutical group Pfizer and by the German company BioNTech, approved last Monday by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and that began to be administered in Germany from the weekend.
During the administration of the vaccine, which took place on Sunday, the eight employees mistakenly received five doses of the vaccine, each time, according to the administrator of the district where the house is located, Stefan Kerth, quoted today by international agencies. .
The representative made sure everyone was immediately informed of the error.
Four employees were admitted to the hospital to observe mild flu symptoms, while the remaining three went home.
“I deeply regret this incident,” said Stefan Kerth, assuring that this situation is an isolated case caused by human error.
“I wish everyone concerned that there are no serious side effects,” he added.
Before the launch of the vaccination campaign that began simultaneously in several European countries over the weekend, the German laboratory BioNTech reported that during the testing phases even higher doses of the vaccine than recommended were administered and that the process had not been successful. serious side effects.
The Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine, developed in less than a year and which must be administered in two doses, 21 days apart, is delivered in a vial that, when diluted, gives five doses.
German health authorities announced today, through a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health, that the ampoules of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine are likely to give a total of six doses.
Germany today reported 348 deaths associated with the covid-19 disease, in reference to the last 24 hours, and the country reached a total of 30,126 deaths.
The number of positive cases of infection by the new coronavirus since the start of the pandemic in Germany amounts to 1,651,834.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed at least 1,765,049 deaths out of more than 80.6 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus (SARS-Cov-2) detected in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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