{"id":673613,"date":"2022-10-21T14:33:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T14:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=673613"},"modified":"2022-10-21T14:35:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T14:35:38","slug":"india-destroy-100-million-doses-of-covid-19-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/india-destroy-100-million-doses-of-covid-19-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"India Destroy 100 Million Doses of Covid-19 Vaccines!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A vaccine maker in India, Serum Institute of India (SII), gas stated that they have destroyed 100 million doses of expired Covid-19 jabs. This has came after the firm stopped producing them in December as their were already millions of doses of vaccine jabs ready and provided.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>SII, the world&#8217;s largest vaccine maker, has been making the local version of AstraZeneca&#8217;s Vaxzevria jab. Stated the BBC.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Going forward, when people take a flu shot every year, they may take a Covid vaccine along with it, but in India, there is no culture of taking a flu shot every year, like in the West.&#8221; Mr Poonawala said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_673614\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-673614\" class=\"wp-image-673614 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/shutterstock_1906802554-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/shutterstock_1906802554-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/shutterstock_1906802554-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/shutterstock_1906802554-1-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-673614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: <a class=\"jss268 jss44 jss46 jss45\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/g\/angellodeco\">angellodeco<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-11r1m41-RichTextComponentWrapper ep2nwvo0\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">India has administered over two billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines. More than 70% of the Indian population has taken at least two doses, which in turn is great for India as at one point they had the highest rate of infections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-11r1m41-RichTextComponentWrapper ep2nwvo0\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In January 2022, India began giving boosters to healthcare and frontline workers, and those above 60 years with comorbidities. It was later expanded to all adults. Stated the BBC.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Banner and Image Credit: <a class=\"jss1952 jss44 jss46 jss45\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/g\/GEMINI+PRO+STUDIO\">GEMINI PRO STUDIO<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vaccine maker in India, Serum Institute of India (SII), gas stated that they have destroyed 100 million doses of expired Covid-19 jabs. This has came after the firm stopped producing them in December as their were already millions of doses of vaccine jabs ready and provided.\u00a0 SII, the world&#8217;s largest vaccine maker, has been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":673616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asian-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673617,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673613\/revisions\/673617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}