More than a third of Manitoba’s COVID-19 vaccine doses set to expire by November: province – CBC

High-risk Manitobans eligible for spring booster, fall campaign expected, province says

Apr 19, 2023

More than a third of Manitoba’s COVID-19 vaccine doses will expire by November, according to the province.

As of Tuesday, Manitoba had a stock of about 51,300 COVID-19 vaccine doses. About 17,800 doses — or 35 per cent — will expire sometime between April and November, a provincial spokesperson said in an email to Radio-Canada.

But that’s only if Health Canada does not approve any more shelf-life extensions from manufacturers, the spokesperson said.

About 43,000 of the 51,300 doses are bivalent vaccines, which target both the original strain of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 and its Omicron variant, and are recommended as booster shots by the National Advisory Committee on Immunization.

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