Moderna's vaccines, which were donated to Montenegro, expire next month, but have been extended until April.
The Montenegrin Institute for Medicines and Medical Devices (CInMED), in cooperation with "Montefarm", informed health workers that at the level of the European Union in December of last year, the term of use for the Moderna vaccine, now called Spikevax, was extended from seven to nine months .
The storage conditions, as they stated, remain unchanged, so Moderna is stored at a temperature of minus 25 to minus 14 Celsius.
"Given that the implementation of the change in the expiration date is ongoing, the batches of the vaccine that have already been distributed in the EU member states, and the batches that will be distributed in December 2021 and January 2022, will still have an expiration date on the labels. of seven months... A new expiration date of nine months will be stamped on the vials produced in January, which will have a stamped expiration date of August 2022...", according to the letter from CInMED and Montefarma.
Three days ago, Slovenia donated to Montenegro 42.000 doses of the modern vaccine against the coronavirus, worth more than one million euros, the Ministry of Health announced.
CInMED and Montefarm informed healthcare workers that three batches of this type of vaccine have expiration dates stamped on 03.02.2022/05.02.2022/16.02.2022, 03.04.2022/05.04.2022/16.04.2022 and XNUMX/XNUMX/XNUMX. and that the updated expiration date is XNUMX/XNUMX/XNUMX, XNUMX/XNUMX/XNUMX and XNUMX/XNUMX/XNUMX. years.
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