Africa Business Radio

A UNICEF official disclosed that Poorer nations last month rejected more than 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines distributed by the global programme COVAX, mainly due to their rapid expiry date.The big figure showed the difficulties of vaccinating the world despite growing supplies of shots, with COVAX getting closer to delivering one billion doses to a total of nearly 150 countries. The Director of Supply Division at UN agency, UNICEF, Etleva Kadil told lawmakers at the European Parliament that more than 100 million have been rejected just in December alone adding that the main reason for rejection was the delivery of doses with a short shelf-life.