Nigeria will discard one million expired Covid-19 vaccines, said Faisal Shuaib, executive director of the National Agency for Development of Primary Health Care (NPHCDA). The organization is working with drug regulators to set a date for dose destruction.
“We are working with NAFDAC (National Agency for the Administration and Control of Food and Medicines) to set a date for when this destruction will occur,” Shuaib told reporters during a press conference on Monday (13).
Last week, Nigeria’s health minister warned in a statement that the immunizations the country received through the Covax Facility consortium – the World Health Organization’s (WHO) vaccine-sharing program – had a shelf life of only a few months, some just weeks, to administer the doses.
Shuaib also said that Nigeria will no longer accept short-life vaccines, although the country has already accepted short-lived immunizations from international donors.
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Reference: CNN Brasil
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