East African Country Malawi destroyed 19,610 doses of Astrazeneca vaccine expiry, although WHO said that it was still injected until mid-July.

Lot of 102,000 doses of Astrazeneca vaccine came to Malawi, East Africa nation borders Mozambique, on March 26 thanks to the initiative of the African Union (AU) and WHO.

Malawi Medical Minister Khumbize Chaponda placed a vaccine bag into the crematorium in Lilongwe to destroy on May 19.

John Nkengasong, director of the African Disease Control and Prevention Center, said in a press conference later last month that there could be able to use this vaccine to July 13, based on a deeper analysis due to

Nkegasong and WHO called on African countries to not waste the donated vaccine.

SII has not responded to commenting on this issue.

The Malawi Ministry of Health said the country was injected 335,232 doses of vaccines as of May 18.