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Canada to throw out 13.6m AstraZeneca Covid vaccine doses amid lack of demand
Government pledged to donate millions of doses to other countries but they were ‘not accepted’ despite fresh rise in coronavirus cases around the world
Canada is to throw out about 13.6m doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine because it couldn’t find any takers for it either at home or abroad.
Canada signed a contract with AstraZeneca in 2020 to get 20m doses of its vaccine, and 2.3 million Canadians received at least one dose of it, mostly between March and June 2021.
Read the original article at The Guardian