Some 9 million doses of expired COVID-19 vaccines being kept in storage facilities in Indonesia will be destroyed, as the country winds back its anti-COVID measures.
The vaccines expired last month, the Indonesian Health Ministry said.
“Our storage facilities are feeling the strain as they’re filled with expired doses,” Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said in a Tuesday briefing Bloomberg reported. “That’s especially as we have a new campaign to push for basic vaccination for children across the country.”
The majority of the vaccines were donated from developed countries before their expiration dates, Sadikin said, according to local media KOMPASS.com….