Malawi to destroy 16,000 expired Covid vaccines

Malawi

Churchgoers wash hands as a preventive measure against the spread of the coronavirus at the Saint Don Bosco Catholic Parish in Lilongwe, Malawi on March 22, 2020. PHOTO | AFP

By  AFP

What you need to know:

  • The southern African country received 102,000 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca jabs last month but 16,400 were not administered before they expired.

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