Covid-19 vaccines: What s happening to unused jabs?
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image captionCovid-19 vaccines are limited globally, but stocks have been piling up in some countries
While some countries are scrambling to get their hands on vaccines, others are left wondering what to do with jabs they ve ordered but can no longer use, following concerns over safety.
Several countries have restricted use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca (AZ) and Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccines for younger age groups because of a very small risk of rare blood clots.
Denmark has stopped giving out AZ altogether, triggering a wave of interest in its unused doses.
In a bold move, the Czech Republic offered to buy all AstraZeneca vaccines from Denmark . Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania also expressed interest.
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The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) has set out a $3.5bn plan to ‘dramatically reduce or even eliminate the future risk of pandemics’. Its ambitions are for an ‘all-in-one’ vaccine against SARS, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 coronaviruses; as well as reducing vaccine development into a 100 day timeframe.
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