By JVINN Okafor (Managing Editor) @AuntyJVIN
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned all Nigerians on what it described as the existence of fake covid-19 vaccine in the country. It also warned the Nigerian public to “refrain from procuring the vaccine online to avoid falling into the wrong hands of merchants of death.”
The warning was given on Sunday by the NAFDAC's Director-General, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, through a statement by its Resident Media Consultant, Sayo Akintola. According to NAFDAC, Nigerians should "be vigilant and expose anyone who might want to divert COVID-19 vaccines donated by international donors for profiteering.
Adeyeye also said that: “The public must be on the lookout for these spurious and counterfeit vaccines and other regulated products”, she warned, adding that no fewer than 5,000 health personnel in the Federal Capital Territory will receive the COVID-19 vaccines on today, Monday, and Tuesday.
Meanwhile, frontline workers would be given the jabs at the Asokoro District Hospital, Abuja, where the vaccination would be inaugurated by the FCT Minister, Mohammed Bello. The acting Secretary, Health and Human Services Secretariat, Dr. Mohammed Kawu, explained that other categories of residents would be vaccinated subsequently.
Kawu said, “By Monday, we start with health workers only; we would take all the heath workers Monday, Tuesday or so; whether you are private, whether you are public. After that, we would announce the next group. In FCT public hospitals, we have about 5,000 workers but we are collating, we have not got the number of health workers in the private hospitals.”
Kawu further said other individuals would be directed to any of the 65 vaccination points across the six area councils in the FCT for their jabs.
Already, 25 vaccination centers have been opened in the Abuja Municipal Area Council, 10 in Bwari, 10 in Gwagwalada, eight in Kuje, seven in Kwali, and five in the Abaji area council. NNL.
