Two Medical Institutions in Seoul Discard Vaccines Due to Refrigeration Issues... Vaccination Rate at Nursing Hospitals 79%

6 Vials and 60 Doses Disposed Due to Poor Refrigerator Management... Seoul City Establishes '3-Step Vaccine Management System'
Nursing Home Vaccination Rate 83%, First Responders Vaccination Rate 37.8%

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] Two cases of vaccine disposal due to inadequate refrigerator temperature control were confirmed at two medical institutions in the Seoul area.

According to Seoul City on the 12th, as of the 9th, one vial was frozen and discarded due to inadequate refrigerator temperature control at two medical institutions in Seoul, followed by the disposal of vaccines from five vials due to refrigerator malfunction. A vial is the packaging unit of the vaccine; the AstraZeneca vaccine allows 10 doses per vial, and the Pfizer vaccine allows 6 doses per vial.

Park Yumi, Seoul City's quarantine controller, stated, "We will strengthen vaccine management to ensure safe vaccinations," and added that the city plans to establish and operate a three-step vaccine management inspection system. The three steps of vaccine management are self-inspection, regular inspection, and occasional inspection.

Accordingly, all 345 vaccination institutions in Seoul must perform self-inspections by recording refrigerator temperatures at least twice daily and keeping written logs. Seoul City and district offices will conduct regular monthly inspections of vaccine receipt, storage, and disposal at vaccination institutions and will also carry out unannounced on-site inspections through occasional planned checks.

Meanwhile, as of midnight on the 12th, the number of first-dose vaccine recipients in Seoul was counted at 84,663. The number of new vaccinations the previous day was 10,940. At nursing hospitals, 13,614 people were vaccinated, achieving a vaccination rate of 79.3%, and at nursing facilities, 6,408 people were vaccinated, recording a vaccination rate of 82.8%. First responders accounted for 3,838 people, or 37.8% of the total. Medical institutions at the hospital level or higher vaccinated 51,804 people, or 56.9%.

As of the previous day, there were 959 reported adverse reactions after vaccination, representing 1.1% of all vaccine recipients. Of these adverse reactions, 99.4% were cases of vomiting, fever, and nausea.

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