Millions of surplus doses of COVID-19 vaccines worth an estimated $1 billion are set to expire by the end of the year due to problems with the technology used to track the distribution and use of doses, Canada’s auditor general has found.

In total, Ottawa purchased about 169 million vaccine doses between December 2020 and May of this year, at an estimated cost of $5 billion.

About 84.1 million doses have been administered to Canadians. But as of May 2022, there were still 32.5 million remaining doses in federal, provincial and territorial inventories, estimated to be worth about $1 billion.

Most will expire by the end of 2022 if unused, Hogan says.

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