NAFDAC Warns Nigerians Against Fake AstraZeneca Vaccination
The Nigerian public should ensure that the COVID-19 AstraZeneca Vaccine being administered on them has the original label, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control disclosed this on Sunday.
NAFDAC in a statement by its Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, said the advice became necessary to ensure that people were not at risk of being vaccinated with the fake AstraZeneca vaccine.
She noted that the original Oxford Astrazeneca University vaccine had been contracted to India’s world largest vaccine manufacturer, Serum Institute of India (SIIPL), to produce in large quantity.
Adeyeye added that the vaccines manufactured by SIIPL were accredited by World Health Organisation (WHO), and were being used in about 170 countries across the globe in their national immunisation programme.
According to her, ChAdOx1 nCoV- 19 corona virus vaccines (Recombinant), COVISHIELD, was granted Emergency Use Listing (EUL) by World Health Organisation on February 15, and that it was one of the listed vaccines under COVAX Facility.
