The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, on Thursday disclosed that the Astrazeneca vaccine recently inaugurated and been administered across the states to treat COVID-19 has no side effect.
NAFDAC Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, made this known in Abuja, shortly after she got vaccinated on Thursday.
According to her, NAFDAC went through the application dossier of the vaccine before it was approved to be administered on Nigerians for the treatment of COVID-19, NAN reports.
“When we got the dossier or the application package of the vaccine, we went through it line by line, but before we got the application itself, we went through other assessments.
“I am talking about their assessment report so that we are prepared and guided when we start our own and that was exactly what happened.
“We conclude based on quality, safety and efficacy because we have to depend on the report, this particular AstraZeneca vaccine, over 20, 000 people were involved in phase three of the report,’’ she said.
Adeyeye said that the effectiveness of AstraZeneca vaccine outweigh the risk, as it has already been scrutinised.
She noted that there was no medicine without its side effect, especially when still going through the developmental stage.
The director-general said that from all indications of quality and efficacy, the benefit of AstraZeneca vaccine outweighs the risk and the side effect