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Madrid is the autonomous community that throws the most vaccines

Discarded covid vaccines represent around 0.30% percent of those delivered in Spain, according to data collected by Efe among the autonomous communities.

Madrid, Catalonia and Aragon they are the ones that have reported the most significant figures, followed to a lesser extent by Murcia and the Balearic Islands.

Total, At least 226,098 vaccines have been discarded compared to the 77,059,809 doses delivered since the vaccination campaign began eleven months ago, and practically half of those wasted sera have been in the Community of Madrid.

Most of the recalled doses are from Janssen and AstraZeneca, once the strategy approved by the Ministry of Health involves inoculating the third doses, either in additional or booster pricks, with messenger RNA vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna).

The Government of Madrid that has encrypted in 117,977 units discarded, the majority for having passed the administration date and the rest for incidents in the cold chain.

Catalonia admitted in September that 69,129 doses had expired. In the case of Catalonia, these vaccines have not been destroyed and they are waiting to receive instructions on what to do with them, as the Generalitat Health Department has informed Efe.

Aragon lhe bequeathed to discard 30,000 expired doses in recent months. In this case, they have been returned to the central warehouse of the Hospital Clínico, where a waste company is in charge of their management, in the same way that it is done with the rest of expired medicines.

In Murcia, according to his Health Service, he returned in April 3,960 vials from Janssen and 680 from AstraZeneca, in September.

In the Balearic Islands have been discarded due to expiration since the beginning of the 2,886 doses while those discarded in Castilla la Mancha amount to 1.350All of them from Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals, the maker of Janssen.

Other communities have provided smaller data: this is the case of Extremadura, with 50 vials discarded, mainly from Janssen; the Basque Country with 36 expired or La Rioja with 30 doses of AstraZeneca that expired on October 31st.

From the Galician Health Service have reported that no dose has been wasted. And they have specified that when a vial remains unused during a vaccination day, it is returned through the ‘reverse logistics system’ designed by the General Directorate of Public Health.

In Castilla y León there are no expired vaccines either And, according to the counseling, that extreme has never occurred.

In the Valencian Community, According to the Ministry, the general practice is to “defrost” doses as they are needed, in addition to using the vaccines with the closest expiration date first.

Also the autonomous city of Ceuta claims not to have had to discard any dose.

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