Denmark to destroy 1.1 million excess COVID-19 vaccines

Denmark has donated 9 million doses of vaccines and has been collaborating with other EU nations to find countries that will receive surplus vaccines [File: Matt Rourke/AP Photo]

Danish health officials say that 1.1 million excess COVID-19 vaccines will be discarded in the coming weeks because their expiration date is near, and efforts to donate them to developing countries have failed.

Statens Serum Institut (SSI), a government agency that maps the spread of infectious diseases including COVID-19 in Denmark, said on Monday the epidemic in the Scandinavian country “is currently under control, and the vaccine coverage in the Danish population is high”.