Malawi destroys expired Covid-19 drugs
Health authorities in Malawi burnt thousands of expired coronavirus vaccines.
Malawi health authorities have destroyed more than 19,000 expired doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine saying the act will reassure the public that any vaccines they will get are safe.
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(Picture: Malawis Health Minister Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda (C) puts packs of expired Covid-19 Astra Zeneca in a pharmaceutical incinerator to destroy them at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe on May 19, 2021. Credit.: Photo by AMOS GUMULIRA/AFP via Getty Images)
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