The Ministry of Health has had to discard 400 doses of COVID vaccines due to a failure in the cold chain at the La Casa del Mar Health Center, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
In this way, about 200 people who have received the dose will have to repeat the vaccination. The storage chain of one of the batches was interrupted due to the fact that the temperature in the Centre’s refrigerators was higher than the recommended value.
The head of Epidemiology of the Canary Islands Health Service, Amós García, stressed that “for a more than reasonable period of time the storage temperature” of the vaccines has not been adequate, so it must be “discarded as it is a product that does not it served to protect the population “. And he reassured the 200 vaccinated with these doses by saying that ′′ their health is not at risk “.
Darias asks to get vaccinated
Health Minister Carolina Darias has called for the second booster dose after detecting some cases of the XBB.1.5 variant, an omicron sublineage known as Kraken, in Spain and also ahead of the surge in China that requested the implementation of checks on travelers arriving from that country. Darias reiterated that the virus “is constantly changing”.
