Why are Covid vaccines going to waste?
Malawi and South Sudan might destroy more than 70,000 Covid-19 vaccines. Why?
Africa Daily · BBC World Service
April 26, 202112m 5s
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Show Notes
In the fight against Covid-19, every vaccine counts.
And yet, both Malawi and South Sudan say they might destroy as many as 70,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab.
The World Health Organization pleaded with them not to.
So what exactly is behind their plan? And what does it tell us about Africa’s struggle to immunise more than a billion people?
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