JUST IN: NAFDAC endorses Pfizer-BionTech vaccines for use in Nigeria

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Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye: NAFDAC DG

Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye: NAFDAC endorses Pfizer-BionTech vaccines for use in Nigeria
Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye: NAFDAC endorses Pfizer-BionTech vaccines for use in Nigeria

By Kazeem Ugbodaga

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has approved Pfizer-BionTech vaccines for possible use in Nigeria.

Director-General, NAFDAC, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye disclosed this on Friday at a news conference in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.

Adeyeye said the vaccines were reviewed carefully by the NAFDAC staff COVID-19 vaccine committee to make sure that the science behind the development was well understood and in accord with world regulatory activities.

She said NAFDAC used different mechanisms to approve the vaccine.

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According to her, the body used reliance, “meaning that a more mature regulatory agency across the globe, we can use that as a basis for our review.”

She said NAFDAC would get the assessment report, know the peculiarity there, then the COVID-19 committee would get to do their job.

NAFDAC had earlier in the year approved the use of AstraZeneca vaccines in Nigeria, which was distributed to states.

The first dose of AstraZeneca vaccines have been administered in Nigeria while administration of the second dose would kick-off in May 2020.

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