South Africa Receive COVID-19 Vaccines Expiring In April
3 years agoMon, 08 Feb 2021 05:01:39 GMT
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South Africa received over one million AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines on Monday last week and they have discovered the vaccines expire in three months time, not six as thought.
This was only picked up when they arrived in South Africa from India.
The AstraZeneca vaccine was meant to be rolled out by Wednesday to healthcare workers but with the scientists still conducting further studies on the new aggressive variant, the rollout of AstraZeneca has been put on hold.
Speaking on the vaccine, Health department deputy director-general Anban Pillay said:
Look, the expiry date on the vaccines ordinarily are six months. These vaccines just have a six-month expiry date.Unfortunately, these vaccines came through with an expiry date in April, which we only identified upon arrival.
Mkhize, however, said the AstraZeneca vaccine will NOT be sent back to India adding that scientists will be concluding studies linked to the efficacy.
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