Specifically, Belgium has 436,800 doses from Astrazeneca that will expire on May 31 and, in July, another 800,000 doses from Moderna and 90,000 more from Pfizer-Biontech.
Currently, 80% of Belgian residents have received at least one dose of a covid vaccine and 62% a booster shot.
But the slowdown in the vaccination campaign has caused a “stock” of unused doses to be generated, since the health policy since the availability of drugs has been to stock up on more doses than necessary to have different suppliers.
The newspaper adds that, if new variants do not appear that encourage people to resume vaccination, even more doses will have to be thrown away in the coming months or in 2023.
In parallel, and to avoid this type of situation, the EU countries dealt with the expiration of vaccines at the last meetings of Ministers of Health of the Twenty-seven.
However, from the international platform for sharing COVAX vaccines, they point out that they have “enough doses to cover the demand,” said Le Soir.
The entrance Belgium will have to throw away 1.3 million expired anticovid vaccines was first published in diary TODAY.
