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Nearly 1,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses meant for town's most clinically vulnerable had to be thrown away
direct to your inboxAlmost 1,000 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine meant for a Cheshire town's most clinically vulnerable residents had to be thrown away.A batch of the Pfizer-BioNTech, containing 975 doses, delivered to Waters Green Medical Centre in Macclesfield was found to be unusable, it has been revealed.The same number of people, who were scheduled to have the vaccine, will now not get it until a later date.The problem was caused by issues refrigerating the vaccine, which needs to be kept at -70 degrees centigrade and then 2 to 8 degrees at vaccination centres for up to five days.One pensioner, who asked not to be named, was due to get the jab, but said he was called by Waters Green staff two hours before his appointment to be told that