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UK is ‘set to bin 3.5million Pfizer vaccine doses’ despite their shelf life already being extended as rollout slows – Daily Mail

Up to 3.5million Covid vaccine doses are set to be binned after reaching their expiry date, it was revealed today.

A leaked memo last month revealed that tens of millions of jabs sent to hospitals, GP surgeries and pharmacies in the run up to Christmas to fight Omicron had largely went unused.

Now NHS sources say more than half of the doses sent to some clinics are still ‘sitting in fridges’ amid falling demand for the booster shots. 

One well-placed official estimated up to 3.5m doses are likely to be binned, based on stock counts in several English regions, the Health Service Journal reports.

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