CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's public prosecution said on Sunday it had ordered the arrest of three individuals after heaps of unused COVID-19 vaccines were found dumped alongside a water channel.
It spoke of the vaccines had been allotted to the health directorate within the city of Minya, about 220 km (137 miles) south of Cairo, the place 18,400 vaccine applications with a price of greater than 5 million Egyptian pounds ($319,000) had been discovered to be missing.
a listing found virtually 5,000 extra packages had been misplaced from the depot on account of storage at wrong temperatures, a prosecution remark delivered. It did not provide the variety of doses or classification of vaccine, but an previous reliable remark pointed out they were made by using China's Sinopharm.
photographs posted on social media showed piles of white packing containers scattered along the water channel's banks in Bani Mazar province, north of Minya.
The vaccines that were dumped w ent missing after being given via an permitted pharmacist to the motive force of a health Ministry automobile to bring to the Minya directorate, the prosecution spoke of.
preliminary investigations held the pharmacist and an reliable at the directorate's depot responsible for gross negligence, and that they were ordered detained for investigations together with the driver after giving conflicting accounts, the statement said.
Egypt is aiming to vaccinate 40 million of its population of more than a hundred million with the aid of the end of the yr, however has struggled to ramp up its vaccination rate amid delays in materials and some vaccine hesitancy.
($1 = 15.6600 Egyptian pounds)
(Reporting through Haithem Borai; Writing through Aidan Lewis; enhancing by Peter Cooney)
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