Expires End Of December 2021, Kudus Health Office Returns 3,550 Doses Of AstraZeneca To Central Java Provincial Government

Astrazeneca Vaccine (ANTARA)

KUDUS - The Kudus District Health Office, Central Java, returned 3,550 doses of the AstraZeneca brand of COVID-19 vaccine to the Central Java Provincial Government because it was nearing the expiration date at the end of December 2021.

"Hopefully, the vaccine can still be used by other districts. Meanwhile, Kudus itself for the second dose by injecting the AstraZeneca vaccine is sufficient", said Secretary of the Kudus District Health Office Andini Aridewi in Kudus, Antara on Tuesday, December 21.

He noted that Kudus Regency has a stock of around 11,000 more doses of the vaccine with a deadline for use until the end of December 2021.

As for the details, for the AstraZeneca vaccine from France as many as 330 doses and AstraZeneca from New Zealand as many as 11,280 doses.

"After we allocated the second dose, the remaining 355 vials were recorded", he said.

The injection of the vaccine is currently being accelerated according to the schedule for the second dose of vaccination in several health facilities so that it is certain that there will be no additional expired AztraZeneca vaccine.

"So is the injection of other types of vaccines, as long as there is stock, they are directly injected into the community", he said.

In general, the achievement of COVID-19 vaccination was 75.52 percent for the first dose, while the second dose was 56.88 percent.