The nurse is suspected of injecting salt solution into people's arms instead of genuine doses at a vaccination centre in Friesland — a rural district near the North Sea coast — in the early spring.
The nurse is suspected of injecting salt solution into people's arms instead of genuine doses at a vaccination centre in Friesland — a rural district near the North Sea coast — in the early spring.
While saline solution is harmless, most people who got vaccinated in Germany in March and April — when the suspected switch took place — are elderly people at high risk of catching the potentially fatal viral disease.
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