Health Canada extends expiry date for thousands of AstraZeneca doses

Ontario pharmacists who expected to spend the weekend racing to administer 45,000 doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine set to expire have been given a reprieve from Health Canada.

The federal department has extended the expiry date from May 31 to July 1, according to a spokesperson for Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott.

The decision was made “following the review of submitted stability data,” Elliott’s spokesperson said via email on Saturday.

The doses, which sat in storage for a few weeks

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