Nearly 45,000 doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine stored at various health centres in Khulna, including 33,873 doses for children, will expire on November 30.
Khulna district currently has a stock of 100,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines of different manufacturers.
Civil Surgeon Dr Sujat Ahmad said there were vaccines that would expire next year. He urged those who had not yet received the booster dose to get vaccinated.
According to sources, 3,937 doses of Johnson & Johnson and 35,221 doses of AstraZeneca will expire on December 7, while 19,212 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine will expire on October 24 next year.
From June 19, 2021 to November 16 this year, some 5,539,000 men and women received Covid-19 vaccines.
Among them, 2,357,000 got the first dose, 2,021,000 received the second dose and 1,160,000 were given the booster dose.
The Covid-19 immunization started in Khulna with the Sinopharm vaccine. Since June last year, 5,658,239 doses of Covid-19 vaccines have arrived in the district. These vaccines include AstraZeneca, Sinopharm, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, Synovax and Pfizer.
In the last year and a half, some 8,871 doses of vaccines, mostly Moderna, were wasted in the district.
Khulna Divisional Health Director Dr Manjurul Morshed said the vaccines were kept in air-conditioned rooms, for which the wastage was nominal.
He added that vaccination activities were underway in different places of the district.
