{"id":28187,"date":"2021-02-10T13:14:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T04:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/10\/japan-pfizer-vaccine-doses-wrong-syringes"},"modified":"2021-02-10T13:14:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T04:14:58","slug":"japan-to-discard-millions-of-pfizer-vaccine-doses-because-it-has-wrong-syringes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28187","title":{"rendered":"Japan to discard millions of Pfizer vaccine doses because it has wrong syringes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan has secured 144m shots of the vaccine, but it does not have enough of the specialised syringes to be able to draw six shots from each vial<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Millions of people in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> will not receive Pfizer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus<\/a> vaccine as planned due to a shortage of specialist syringes \u2013 an oversight that could frustrate the country\u2019s inoculation programme.<\/p>\n<p>Standard syringes in use in Japan are unable to extract the sixth and final dose from each vial manufactured by the US drugmaker, according to the health minister, Norihisa Tamura.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/10\/japan-pfizer-vaccine-doses-wrong-syringes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan has secured 144m shots of the vaccine, but it does not have enough of the specialised syringes to be able to draw six shots from each vialCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMillions of people in Japan will not receive Pfi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1640,1066,914,88,916,1810,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-astrazeneca","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-japan","category-microbiology","category-pfizer","category-science","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28190,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28187\/revisions\/28190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}