Malawi on Wednesday destroyed nearly 17,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine that had expired in mid-April with the health minister blaming propaganda and many malawians reluctance to receive the vaccine.
"The batch which had expired has been withdrawn from our system and has been destroyed, Malawi health minister Kumbize Kandodo said at the Kamuzu Central Hospital in the capital Lilongwe.
Mr. Kandodo said Africa union batch had "two weeks of shelf life, and in those two weeks they were not able to absorb everything.
This is coming after Austria dropped the AstraZeneca making them become the third European country after Norway and Denmark ditched the vaccine over rare cases of severe blood clots in people receiving the vaccine
Kandodo said Wednesday: "We tried to assure Malawians and give them the faith" but wound up with 16,910 unusable doses of AstraZeneca, incinerated in a brief ceremony at the hospital.
Since Malawi launched it's vaccination drive in March, it has inoculated 300,000 people of it's target to reach 11 million or 60 percent of the population, by the end of the year.
"We don't want to lose any vaccine because we have a lot of people to vaccinate but we have to remove all expired drugs from the system" Kandodo said
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