CM – Excess Covid vaccines are to be sent overseas

The government is expected to divert hundreds of thousands of doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to developing countries as Irish vaccination centers only use Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.

Although a cabinet decision has not yet been made on what to do with the to About 400,000 doses of AstraZeneca due to be delivered between now and the end of the year, sources said they would likely be diverted to the World Health Organization co-funded Covax program (WHO) to ensure vaccine supplies to poorer countries / p> Last Wednesday, the WHO called for a moratorium on booster vaccinations until at least the end of September to ensure that ten percent of the world’s population can be vaccinated against Covid-19 by that date.