Health officials concerned about expiry date of vaccines
Ethiopia’s Health Minister Lia Tadesse receives a box of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines, delivered as a part of the UN-led Covax initiative. PHOTO | FILE
With millions of Covid-19 vaccine doses expected to be available to African countries in the coming weeks, public health officials are worried about the short expiration dates.
Covax has allocated 60 million doses to 49 African countries to be shipped between July and September 2021, said Matshidiso Moeti, the Africa regional director at the World Health Organisation, at a press briefing on Thursday.
