Health
Japan to toss millions of Pfizer shots because it doesn’t have enough syringes to extract them – Business Insider South Africa
Each Pfizer vaccine vial has six doses, and Japan doesn’t have enough special syringes to extract the final dose, its health minister said.
Millions of Pfizer coronavirus vaccine doses are likely to be thrown away in Japan because the country doesn’t have enough special syringes to extract the final dose from each vial, according to Kyodo News.
Pfizer’s two-shot vaccine is sold in vials containing six doses, but extracting the sixth dose requires a special syringe called a low-dead space syringe.
And because Japan doesn’t have enough of those special syringes, it will likely only be able to extract five doses per vial, its health minister…
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