MALAWI-HEALTH-VIRUS

A pharmaceutical expert (L) opens a box of expired Covid-19 Astra Zeneca vaccines to show to Malawis Health Minister Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda (R)and civil society representatives and journalists before they are destroyed in a furnace at a pharmaceutical incinerator at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe on May 19, 2021. - Malawi has destroyed nearly 17,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine that had expired in mid-April, with the health minister blaming "propaganda" for many Malawians' reluctance to receive the jab. "The batch which had expired (has) been withdrawn from our system and has been destroyed," Health Minister Kumbize Kandodo said at the Kamuzu Central Hospital in the capital Lilongwe. (Photo by Amos GUMULIRA / AFP) (Photo by AMOS GUMULIRA/AFP via Getty Images)