A million vaccine shots tossed in Indonesia on short expiry date


JAKARTA, Jan 20 (Bloomberg): More than a million Covid-19 vaccine shots expired in Indonesia before they could be given out, as most of them were donated with a short shelf life.

Of the 1.1 million doses that were thrown out, about 98% were donated just one to three months away from expiry, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said in parliament on Wednesday.

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