According to sources at the Ministry of Health, there was no demand for the vaccines in question. Currently the authorities have initiated a return of the vaccines which expire at the end of October.
Officials at the Ministry of Health who wanted to return the 50,000 vaccines two weeks ago, submitted a return request via the Bi-Communal Health Committee.
Only thirty thousand out of the eighty thousand doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine received in August, were used.