National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has announced that Nigeria will no longer take expired COVID-19 vaccine. Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, Director-General of the agency told NAN on Wednesday in Lagos that the expired vaccines had a very short expiration which made it impossible to be administered in time due to logistics reasons.
She said: “When developed countries started using vaccines for many months, we didn’t have access to them until we started receiving donations, not just through COVAX alone but from some countries also.
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One million doses of vaccines expired in November and were destroyed by the agency and the National Primary Health Care Development Agency and the Abuja Environmental Protection Agency. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the 1,066,214 doses of expired AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines were destroyed at the Gosa Dumping site in Abuja.
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