COVID-19 pandemic

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic we issue regular Medical Product Quality Reports:

COVID-19 vaccines

This report focuses only on diverted and SF COVID-19 vaccines. Up to May 2021, the report has been updated every month. The report is a cumulative report, it contains all the information and reports on diverted and SF COVID-19 vaccines that we have found since the beginning of the pandemic. The newly added information is highlighted and articles from the lay press that were included in the past month are described in detail.

From June 2021 on, the updates on the quality of COVID-19 vaccines have been integrated into the report on COVID-19 medical products (as described below)

COVID-19 medical products

This extended report covers multiple categories of SF medical products that are used or trailed for COVID-19: vaccines, diagnostics, personal protective equipment, sanitisers and disinfectants, medicines, and ventilation equipment.

Each issue covers the available information of one or more whole month(s). Only the first issue of the report covers data on SF medical products from multiple months, across the 6 first months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

MEDICAL PRODUCT QUALITY REPORTS - COVID-19 VACCINES 

To inform action, policy and encourage urgently needed joined-up interventions to reduce the risk of substandard falsified (SF) and diverted COVID-19 vaccines on global public health, the Medicine Quality Research Group has prepared a cumulative report summarising public domain COVID-19 vaccine issues that we are aware of.

You can download our cumulative Medical Product Quality Report - COVID-19 Vaccines below.

• Download the report with data up to 31 May 2021 (pdf) (with annexes)
• Download the report with data up to 30 April 2021 (pdf) (with annexes)
• Download the report with data up to 31 March 2021 (pdf) (with annexes)
• Download the report with data up to 5 March 2021 (pdf) (with annexes)
• Download the report with data up to 10 February 2021 (pdf) (with annexes)

Please note that annexes to the PDFs generated automatically from the MQM Globe; we apologise if the resulting PDFs are not entirely accessible

MEDICAL PRODUCT QUALITY REPORTS - COVID-19 MEDICAL PRODUCTS

With the recent emergence of COVID-19, there has been a growing number of reports of substandard and falsified (SF) personal protective equipment, diagnostic tests, medicines, and vaccines. With the Medical Product Quality Report - COVID-19 issues, we started a system for reporting all that we can find in the public domain on substandard and falsified COVID-19 medical product problems. We issue these reports as an aid to regulators, health workers, policymakers and international organisations, across the global health spectrum, in their understanding of the issues that we face.

Data in the report are from scientific literature, public alerts and warnings, and the lay press. We included especially information from our Medicine Quality Monitoring Globe, a free-to-use online tool that maps news reports worldwide of substandard and falsified medical products.

You can download our Medical Product Quality Report - COVID-19 issues, either the full report (with annexes), or the smaller file with main text only (without annexes).