The Federal Government has destroyed about 1,066,214 doses of Astrazeneca vaccines donated to the country to combat COVID-19.
The destruction carried out in Abuja, according to the government, followed the expiration of the vaccines given to the country by foreign donors.
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency, handed the vaccines to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, which in turn, presented them to the Abuja Environmental Protection Agency to destroy at Gosa Dumsite, at Kilometer 2, in Abuja.
The destruction was supervised by the Executive Director of National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Faisal Shuaib, and the Director-General of NAFDAC Mojisola Adeyeye.
Speaking shortly before the destruction, Faisal Shuaib, explained that the action was carried out on behalf of the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19, comprising also the Federal Ministry of Health, the National Primary Health Care Development Agency and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC.
