African countries urged not to destroy vaccines after expiry confusion
States receiving donations of Covid-19 vaccines told they could use the shots up to July 13
22 April 2021 - 17:49
The AU’s disease control body and World Health Organisation on Thursday urged African countries not to waste Covid-19 vaccines donated to them, after confusion in Malawi and South Sudan about whether doses they received had expired.
“My appeal to member states is: if we are doing our part to mobilise these vaccines, you do your part and use the vaccines,” John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), told a news conference...
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