Canada Oxford-AstraZeneca Anti-Covid-19 Vaccine (Canada Covid Vaccine Wastage) About 13.6 million doses are going to be thrown away, as no one in the country or abroad has been able to find them and the use of these doses has expired. Canada signed an agreement with AstraZeneca to purchase 20 million doses of the vaccine in 2020. At least one dose has been given to 2.3 million Canadians. And most doses are given between March and June 2021.
The AstraZeneca vaccine has raised concerns about its use in some people after the rare condition of blood clots. Canada instead Pfizer-BioNtech And of Moderna mRNA Started using vaccines. Canada pledged to donate the remaining 1.77 million doses of AstraZeneca in July 2021. But in a statement on Tuesday, the Canadian Department of Health said that despite efforts to fulfill this promise, the 13.6 million dose has expired and will have to be discarded.
Canada has donated 89 million doses
The vaccine could be used in recipient countries due to limited demand and distribution and consumption challenges, the statement said. In total, Canada has donated 8.9 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine. It has provided 48 lakh doses from its main supply, while the remaining 41 lakh doses it has purchased from the covacin vaccine under the joint program. It is said that about 85 per cent of Canadians have been vaccinated. While 61 percent of the world’s population has been vaccinated. Only 16 percent of them live in the world’s poorest countries.
82 million vaccines were wasted in America
Meanwhile, similar news has come from America. The United States has wasted 82 million doses of the corona virus. CDC figures show that the number of vaccines accounted for 11 percent of the dose distributed to federal governments. Earlier in late February, the CDC said 62 million doses of the corona virus vaccine had been wasted. Many other countries in the world have done the same. There is also a lot of criticism of such incidents. This is because a large number of people living in poor countries have not been able to get vaccinated against Kovid-19.
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