Twenty-five people inoculated with undiluted doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech (BNT) COVID-19 vaccine in New Taipei on Monday are in good health, the city’s health department said Wednesday.

Ten of the 25 are currently under observation at En Chu Kong Hospital in New Taipei, which inadvertently administered the undiluted BNT jabs, after one more vaccine recipient checked in for a precautionary three-day stay Tuesday, a hospital spokesperson said.

One of the hospitalized vaccine recipients said she had her heart functions tested Tuesday and her liver functions tested Wednesday morning and felt well for the time being, according to New Taipei City Councilor Lin Chin-chieh (???).

En Chu Kong Hospital has also been carefully monitoring the health of the other 15 individuals every day by telephone and will provide any necessary assistance, the spokesperson said.

Monitoring the health of all 25 individuals remains the hospital’s top priority at the moment, the spokesperson said, and compensation issues will be discussed with them “in the next phase.”

The hospital also vowed to strengthen its training so that such an incident does not reoccur.

Wang Chung-cheng (???), vice superintendent of the hospital, said at a press conference Tuesday that hospital workers at the site mistakenly thought the vaccine had already been diluted because the caps had fallen off the vials.

After the incident was discovered, New Taipei health authorities ordered En Chu Kong Hospital to stop administering vaccines for one week as punishment.

Because the BNT vaccine doses were not diluted, the 25 individuals received six times the normal dosage, enough for 150 people, according to the hospital.

Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel