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Nigeria Rejects Donated COVID-19 Vaccines With Six Months Expiry Date

The Executive Director, NPHCDA, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja, while presenting a paper on “Status of COVID-19 Vaccine Roll-Out"

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The National Primary Health Care Development Agency has rejected COVID-19 vaccine doses donated by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance to Nigeria because the vaccines will expire in less than six months.

READ MORE: ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia receives additional 2.2 mln doses of Chinese-donated COVID-19 vaccines

The Executive Director, NPHCDA, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja, while presenting a paper on “Status of COVID-19 Vaccine Roll-Out, Delivery, Uptake, Challenges, and Potential Areas Where Advocacy is Needed”.

Nigeria presenting a paper on Covid-19 vaccination paper

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The occasion is a two-day Strategic Advocacy Retreat on COVID-19 and Health Security in Nigeria.

He added that the country has a standard of rejecting vaccines with expiration dates of less than six months.

The NPHCDA boss noted that the goal of CRICC is to increase access to information on COVID-19 vaccines from 70 per cent to 90 per cent by the end of 2022 and improve confidence and trust in COVID-19 vaccines from 62 per cent to 80 per cent by the end of 2021.

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