The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has advised Nigerians to ensure the Astrazeneca vaccine being administered on them had the original label.
The agency said the warning was imperative to ensure people did not risk being vaccinated with the fake Astrazeneca vaccine.
The position of NAFDAC is contained in a statement signed by the agency’s Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, on Sunday, in Abuja.
She said “AZOU gave the license of its vaccine to Serum Institute of India PVT Ltd, (SIIPL), to manufacture this vaccine at a commercial scale. SIIPL is the largest vaccine manufacturer in the world and the company got the license by signing the manufacturing agreement. SIIPL gave the vaccine the trade name COVISHIELD, it is the result of cooperation and a technology transfer from AstraZeneca – the University of Oxford to SIIPL. SIIPL is now the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer by the number of doses produced and sold globally. More than 1.5 billion doses, which include Polio vaccine, Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, Hib, BCG, r-Hepatitis B, Measles, Mumps and Rubella,”