The Federal government has placed 14 countries on watch list as part of measures to prevent a possible spread of the new COVID-19 variant. The Lagos State
2021-05-11 13:30:11 GMT2021-05-11 21:30:11(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
ABUJA, May 11 (Xinhua) The Nigerian government has said it will delay the local production of the COVID-19 vaccine due to the inability to procure the required technology for that.
In a statement, the Minister of Health Osagie Ehanire said although the fund approved by the National Assembly to support the local production of the vaccine was still intact, the country still had that major hindrance as regards the production.
The government, he said, continues to hold talks with a local vaccine firm to enhance a public-private partnership in producing the vaccine.
FG explains why Nigeria can’t start local production of COVID-19 vaccines yet
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The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire has said that local production of COVID-19 vaccines cannot start now in Nigeria.
Ehanire made this known in Abuja at the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) briefing, explaining why local production of COVID-19 vaccines cannot start in the country at the moment as the world continues to fight vaccines nationalism.
The minister attributed the delay to the government’s inability to procure the required technology for production.
He said that the N10 billion earmarked by the National Assembly for that purpose is intact.
As the year 2020 gradually comes to an end,
Onyebuchi Ezigbo captures some of the key events that shaped this highly eventful and turbulent year, especially in the health sector
The year, 2020 will no doubt go down in world history as one of the most remarkable in recent times. It is a year that challenged every of mankind’s ingenuinety and technological prowers. It is a year that the whole world was literally brought to its kneels by a novel virus named COVID-19, which has remained incurable at least for now.
It took everyone by storm, not even the world powers saw it coming nor were they prepared for it. From Wuhan, the commercial city of China, the virus struck the world from one end to the other, spreading fear, agony and lamentation among families of victims. The reality of the virus and its fearsome impact came to Nigeria on February 26 when a young Italian on a business trip to Abeokuta, in Ogun State, landed with the disease in Lagos.
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