Ministry of Health Switzerland prepares to destroy COVID-19 vaccine of 10,300,000 doses of Moderna, which expired on Wednesday, September 21 (2022), stating that there was no choice but to destroy. 2,500,000 doses of the vaccine are stored at the Swiss Army logistics base, and another 7,800,000 doses are held in Belgium. The value of the destroyed vaccine is estimated to be around 280 million Swiss francs (approximately 10,705 million baht).
The health ministry explains that these vaccines are the legacy vaccines that have been purchased in the early stages of the pandemic. Vaccines are ordered from different manufacturers to avoid dependence on vaccines that may later prove ineffective. and to prevent delivery problems Subsequently, reports of clinical trials confirming the efficacy of Moderna, Pfizer and BioEntech-based mRNA-based vaccines led Switzerland to more pre-orders for the vaccine.
Swissinfo news website reports that Switzerland has more than 38 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine, which will expire before the end of the year. But next month (Oct.), Switzerland will restart its coronavirus vaccine program using approximately 3,500,000 doses of Moderna’s next-generation vaccine.
Switzerland 13,556 people have died from coronavirus since the start of the pandemic. Almost 70 percent of the 8.7 million population is fully vaccinated.
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