The Singapore National Eye Centre said it has been following up closely with the worker, who remains well. - The Straits Times/ANN SINGAPORE, Feb 7 (The Straits Times/ANN): A staff member at the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC) has been mistakenly given the equivalent of five doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.
This occurred during a vaccination exercise on Jan 14, and was due to human error resulting from a lapse in communication among members of the vaccination team, said SNEC on Saturday (Feb 6). It said it has been following up closely with the staff member, who remains well.
SNEC said the worker in charge of diluting the vaccine had been called away to attend to other matters before it was done.
Workers place barriers outside the closed Huanan Seafood wholesale market during a visit by WHO members in Wuhan, on Jan 31, 2021.- AFP
BEIJING (The Straits Times/ANN): The WHO mission to Wuhan may be a hallmark moment as the global community seeks to find answers to where the coronavirus came from, but expectations should be tempered, say experts. We should see this effort as very much the beginning of the investigation, said Professor Dale Fisher, an infectious disease expert from the National University Hospital in Singapore who was part of the WHO technical mission to China in February 2020.
Since last week, the international team of experts has visited the Huanan seafood market, where the earliest outbreak was documented, another wet market, two hospitals that had treated Covid-19 patients and a cold-chain storage facility.
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