Due to the slow vaccination campaign, Hong Kong must consider whether to resell the doses of Covid-19 vaccines when the expiry date is approaching.

Nearly 4 million doses of vaccines from Germany's Chinese Manufacturer Sinovac and Biontech are transferred to Hong Kong since February, but about half of them are still in stock when the vaccination campaign in this area is slow.

Vaccine Biontech arrives in Hong Kong in February.

William Chui Chun-Ming, Chairman of the Hospital Pharmacist Association, believes that the city faces three options, or disposal of vaccines when expiring, or donated or reselled to countries in need.

"These countries lack vaccine, not lack of money. We can sell it, use the money to buy two-generation vaccines in the future," he said.

But Dr. Leung Chi-Chiu, expert on infectious diseases, believes that Hong Kong only needs to be processed simply by asking the manufacturer to stop distributing vaccines according to the previous schedule.

Hong Kong so far received two million biontech doses and two million sinovac doses, was 1.25 million and 953,300 doses respectively.

Hong Kong on May 25 announced to expand the vaccination program, including people from mainland China with two-way travel licenses and asylum applicants were in the city before.

Chui said the expiry date is approaching recent officials to strengthen immunization.

The 25/5 city government confirmed that the biontech vaccine lot they owned will expire in mid-August. Indicates that they will discuss with pharmaceutical companies on how to handle, a scenario is maintenance

"Due to time to produce vaccines, check quality, transportation and postpartum, even if the public vaccine needs suddenly increase, we will not be able to supplement all kinds of vaccines

People queue for vaccines at Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong earlier the month.

The United States last week announced that he would share 80 million doses of vaccines around the world, in the move to be considered to be "diplomatic vaccine" China and Russia.

When asked whether he assumed that the vaccine survival in the city could make Hong Kong hard to buy two-generous generation vaccines in the future or not, the scenario said this scenario was unlikely because the shopping contract was mostly dependent

Leung, former president of the Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Health Association on infectious diseases, believing that the city does not need to rush to make a decision, because there are still nearly three months.

He also pointed out that only a small part of the Vaccine ordered from Biontech was transferred to the right-stage delivery plan, so the amount of outstanding products and the future delivery could be adjusted

Not only does every Hong Kong worry about vaccines do not use.

East African National Employment Malawi last week destroyed nearly 20,000 doses of Astrazeneca.

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

Similarly, South Sudan also disposes about 59,000 doses of Astrazeneca provided by the African Union at the end of March after they expire in April. Meanwhile, Denmark is looking to share Astrazeneca vaccine with other countries

In Taiwan, medical officials in the last month expressed concern that a large part of the 310,000 dose of Astrazeneca they received would be wasted due to slow vaccination.