COVID-19: Nurse suspected of injecting thousands with saline solution instead of coronavirus vaccine in Germany
German authorities are now appealing for those who may have been wrongly injected with saline solution to come and get another COVID vaccine shot. Around 8,600 people may have been affected, many of whom are elderly.
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COVID-19: Nurse suspected of injecting thousands with saline solution instead of coronavirus vaccine in Germany
German authorities are now appealing for those who may have been wrongly injected with saline solution to come and get another COVID vaccine shot. Around 8,600 people may have been affected, many of whom are elderly.
Amar Mehta
News reporter @Amarjournalist_
Wednesday 11 August 2021 16:54, UK
Image:The motive for the nurse making the switch is unclear, but she had aired sceptical views about the vaccine on social media. File pic
Thousands of people in Germany have been urged to get another shot of coronavirus vaccine, after it emerged that a Red Cross nurse may have injected them with a saline solution instead.
A police investigation is under way, with the nurse suspected of injecting people with a solution instead of genuine COVID jabs at a vaccination centre in Friesland - a rural district near the North Sea coast.
A saline solution is harmless but most people who were vaccinated between March and April in Germany - when the suspected switch took place - are elderly and at high risk from coronavirus.
"I am totally shocked by this episode," Sven Ambrosy, a local councillor, said on Facebook, as local authorities issued the call to around 8,600 residents who may have been affected.
"The district of Friesland will do everything possible to ensure that the affected people receive their vaccination protection as soon as possible."
Peter Beer, a police investigator, said to local media that based on witness statements there was "a reasonable suspicion of danger".
The motive of the nurse, who has not been not named, was not clear - but she had aired sceptical views about vaccines in social media posts, police investigators said.