The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire has said that the Federal Government has not authorised private importation of COVID-19 vaccines into the country.
Enahire said this known during the Presidential Tasks Force briefing on COVID-19 in Abuja.
”Private importation of COVID-19 vaccines has not been authorised due to reports of substandard falsified vaccines in circulation.
”The deployment of vaccines will be handled by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) or any of the agency’s accredited facilities for now,” the minister said.
“The vaccines were safe and no adverse effects have been recorded in the country.
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“The president, vice president, other leaders, frontline health workers have taken the vaccines and are all doing well.
”We are working with state commissioners for health to meet the COVID-19 support fund requirements.
”We assure all states and local governments that the promised support fund for the process would be paid as soon as the formalities were compete.
“I urge all states to use existing resources so that there are no hitches in the exercise before the disbursement”, he said.
