India vaccinates 30 students with one syringe!

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India vaccinates a syringe for 30 students!
India's New Delhi Television (NDTV) reported on the 28th that a high school in the country's Madhya Pradesh caused public outrage for using the same disposable syringe to vaccinate at least 30 students against the new crown pneumonia.
According to reports, the parents of the students involved immediately reported the situation to the school and the competent authorities after discovering the situation. As the head of the vaccination effort, Gitandra Rey defended when asked by parents if she knew that single-use syringes could not be reused: "Of course I do, but the health department only gave me a single-use syringe. Syringe. Is it my fault? I just did what I was told." When local officials arrived at the school and wanted to find out about Ray's situation, he "disappeared" and police have now opened an investigation.
NDTV said the practice was a serious breach of relevant regulations. Since the 1990s, in order to prevent cross-infection of human-to-human infectious diseases such as AIDS, India has begun to use disposable syringes. Moreover, the Indian Ministry of Health has clearly required that the vaccination of new coronary pneumonia must be "one needle and one syringe at a time".
The incident made Indian public opinion furious. A spokesman for the opposition Congress party Madhya Pradesh said the state's health chief should resign. Official figures show that India has so far administered more than 2 billion doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. According to the BBC, India has had multiple incidents in the past of single syringes being reused due to equipment shortages.

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