PHOTOS: Malawi burns over 19000 expired AstraZeneca vaccines after receiving 100000 donated doses
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Malawi destroys 20,000 expired doses of AstraZeneca vaccine
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Published Wednesday, May 19, 2021 7:13AM EDT Blantyre, Malawi (AP) Malawi has burned nearly 20,000 doses of expired AstraZeneca vaccines, defying calls not to do so from the World Health Organization and the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Malawi s Health Minister Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda presided over the incineration Wednesday at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, the capital. “We are destroying (these vaccines) because as government policy no expired health commodities are to be used,” she said. “Historically under the expanded immunization program of Malawi no expired vaccine has ever been used.” She said the burning of the vaccines will prevent those with a negative perception of inoculations from using the excuse of expired vaccines from getting the shots.