Poorer Nations Forced To Dump Close-to-Expiry Vaccines

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Poorer nations last month rejected more than 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines distributed by the global programme COVAX, mainly due to their

UNICEF’s data on supplies and use of delivered vaccines show that 681 million shipped doses are currently unused in about 90 poorer nations across the world, according to CARE, a charity, which extracted the figures from a public database.More than 30 poorer nations, including big states such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Nigeria, have so far used fewer than half of the doses they have received, CARE said, citing UNICEF data.

COVAX is the main supplier of doses to dozens of poorer nations but is not the only one. Some countries buy doses on their own or use other regional vaccine procurement programmes. But in the last quarter, shipments have exponentially increased thanks to donations from rich countries that have vaccinated the majority of their populations.

 

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