Authorities in north Germany have asked more than 8,000 people to get repeat Covid vaccinations because a nurse is suspected of having injected saline instead of the Covid-19 vaccine.
The police are still investigating the incident that happened in Friesland – a district in Lower Saxony, Germany near the North Sea coast.
Six people were believed to have initially received the harmless salt solution between March and April.
Inspector Peter Beer was quoted in a recent article by Süddeutsche Zeitung describing how an unnamed forty-year-old female has shared Corona Critical Information (CCI) through social media, and criticising the government’s restrictions aimed at curbing the virus’s spread.
Regional broadcaster NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk) is reporting that 8,557 people have been asked to go back for repeat vaccinations, and so far about 3,600 new appointments have been confirmed.
In April, a nurse admitted to giving saline injections to six people in order to cover up the mistake of dropping a vial.
However, it soon became clear as the police investigation unfolded that many more people had been given saline instead of the BioNTech, Pfizer vaccine.
Police are not ruling out the possibility that this nurse’s actions were politically motivated, though her lawyers have already refuted these claims as well as disputed the reported scale of what she did.
The investigation is still underway and so far, no charges have been reported in the case.
Germany, like many other countries in Europe and the Western world, has seen a rise in anti-vaccination protests.
These protesters are often led by far-right groups who refuse to believe that there is any truth behind the official data about Covid’s spread throughout the world.
