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Nigeria Destroys Over 1 Million Expired COVID-19 Vaccines

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, (NAFDAC) alongside the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has destroyed one million, sixty-six thousand, two hundred and fourteen (1,066,214) doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, IgbereTV reports.

These are part of the 2,594,100 doses of Vaccines received on the 11th and 29th October of 2021.

One million, five hundred and twenty-seven thousand, eight hundred and Eighty-six of the vaccines (1,527,886) were said to have been utilised.

The batches of the vaccine destroyed got expired in November.

 

They were destroyed at the Gosa Dumping site, about 2Km away from the Idu Railway Station in Abuja.

According to the Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, the decision to destroy the vaccine followed several testing processes that were conducted.

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