Booster jabs distributed in England for the pre-Christmas vaccination push are to be thrown away because of a lack of demand.
It is not known exactly how many vaccines will be discarded but it is likely to be “hundreds of thousands”, sources told the Health Service Journal (HSJ), which obtained the memo.
Primary care bosses blamed the wastage on as many as 30% of people not turning up for their booster appointment.
Government figures on the booster rollout show that the number of people across the UK receiving one has fallen recently from a record 968,665 on 21 December to 111,849 on Thursday (13 January).
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