Malawi burns 20,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses that expired

Malawi has burned nearly 20,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines because they had expired

Blantyre, Malawi -- Malawi has burned nearly 20,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines because they had expired. The government incinerated 19,610 doses of the vaccine at Kamuzu Central Hospital in the capital Lilongwe on Wednesday morning. The vaccines were the remainder of 102,000 doses that arrived in Malawi on March 26 with just 18 days until they expired on April 13, according to Health Secretary Charles Mwansambo. All other doses of the shipment, donated by the African Union, were successfully administered, he said.