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Nigeria Won’t Take Expired Vaccines Again — NAFDAC D-G

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Nigeria Won’t Take Expired Vaccines Again — NAFDAC D-G
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Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), says the agency is working with international partners to ensure Nigeria gets vaccines with long expiration date.
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. Adeyeye told NAN on Wednesday in Lagos that the expired vaccines had very short expiration which made it impossible to be administered in time due to logistics reasons. She said: “When developed countries started using vaccine 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. “The expiration date was shorter than what it was supposed to be and between the time we tested and start using it, there was no enough time and that was the only reason not because we were careless.
On the new Omnicron variant of COVID-19, the D-G said that studies on the variants was still ongoing globally. She advised Nigerians to continue to adhere to the safety measures given by the various health authorities to further curb the spread of the virus. “A lot is still not known about Omicron because studies are still going on globally about the variant. “The only way to keep safe is to continue with the usage of mask, maintain social distancing, wash our hands regularly and avoid crowded areas to stay safe,” she said.       [GuardianNG]
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