The National Agency for Food and DrugAdministration and Control has approved the use of AstraZeneca Vaccine for usein Nigeria, it’s Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, said on Thursday.
With this development, Nigeria stands ina better position in the ongoing battle against the infection of Coronaviruspandemic among the global community.
Adeyeye at a press conference in Abujasaid NAFDAC got the dossier of the vaccine a week ago, while its safetycommittee went to work immediately to evaluate its safety and efficacy forNigerians.
While affirming that the vaccine could bestored in two to eight degrees Centigrade, she explained that there were threeadditional vaccines undergoing evaluation.
According to her, the evaluation on Astrazeneca shows that the vaccine iseffective against the United Kingdom variant of the virus which has beenreported in Nigeria.
The NAFDAC DG stressed that the SouthAfrican variant has not been reported in Nigeria, while the agency has over 30
herbal medicines undergoing review for listing.