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Nigeria dumps more than 1 million expired AstraZeneca vaccines
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Nigeria dumped more than 1 million AstraZeneca vaccines on Wednesday, roughly a week after Nigerian officials said a similar number of vaccines in the national stockpile had expired.
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Nigeria destroyed more than 1 million expired doses of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine because they could not be used before their expiration date, authorities said.
Authorities in Nigeria have destroyed about one million expired doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine even as the West African country's vaccination rate has almost doubled in the last one week amid a spike in confirmed infections.
The spread of omicron has governments around the world scrambling to vaccinate as many people as possible. In many – mostly poor – countries there's a shortage of doses. But authorities in Nigeria have just had to throw away more than a million.
Nigeria dumped more than 1 million AstraZeneca vaccines on Wednesday, roughly a week after Nigerian officials said a similar number of vaccines in the national stockpile had expired.
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