TOKYO -- Japanese medical equipment maker Terumo in the next 12 months plans to make 20 million syringes that can pull one or two extra doses out of each Pfizer vaccine vial, Nikkei has learned, with the company intent on beginning mass production by the end of this month.
Terumo on Friday received approval from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to manufacture and market the newly developed syringe. The company plans to produce the 20 million syringes by the end of next March at an existing factory in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture.
