NAFDAC Director-General (DG) Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, said this against the backdrop of the one million doses of vaccines which expired in November and destroyed by the agency and the National Primary Health Care Development Agency and the Abuja Environmental Protection Agency.
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Dr Osagie Ehanire, Minister of health, said this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja.
The explanation was offered following a report by Reuters that over one million doses of COVID-19 expired in the country.
The Envoy said in a statement in Lagos on Saturday that the vaccines administered in the country were recognised by the UK Government.
This advocacy was made at a one-day advocacy meeting organized by the Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism in collaboration with UNICEF for local government Information officers and media practitioners on improving COVAX confidence and uptake at grassroots in Oyo State, held in Oyo Town.
The vaccines will be allocated and distributed by the initiative known as the Africa Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT) and the COVAX global vaccine initiative.
China ranks first in the world in terms of vaccines offered to the international community.
The Director Press, PSC on COVID-19, Willie Bassey, made this known in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.
Spokesperson for Guterres, Stephane Dujarric, said this while briefing correspondents at the UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday.
The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Friday.
The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Saturday.
Ahmed said this at a “Collaborative Africa Budget Reform Initiative” General Assembly webinar.
Dr. Munirat Afolayan, Head of Public Health Department at the NNRH, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Lagos.
The NPHCDA Executive Director, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, disclosed on the agency’s official Twitter handle.
The WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, announced this at the bi-weekly news briefing on COVID-19 at WHO headquarters in Geneva.
WHO, in a statement posted on its website on Tuesday, stated that just like the way people react to other vaccines or drugs, they could also react to COVID-19 vaccine.
The President and his Deputy received the vaccine following the launch of the vaccination exercise in the country with frontline health workers.
Mustapha, who is also the Chairman, Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, made the disclosure on Saturday in Abuja while evaluating the country’s fight against the disease
Ehanire made this known on Monday in Abuja at the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 national briefing.
Guterres stated this in a video message to a high-level webinar on the African COVID-19 Vaccine Financing and Development Strategy on Wednesday evening.