Minister explains non-local production of vaccines | The Nation News

The Minister of Health Dr Osagie Ehanire has explained that due to the government’s inability to procure the technology needed to produce vaccines, the possibility of the country starting its local production of the COVID-19 vaccine and other vaccines have been stalled.He, however, disclosed that the N10 billion earmarked by the National Assembly for that purpose is still intact, as it is still in talks with current local vaccine company called Bio-Vaccine Nigeria Limited.

Continuing, he said: “The Serum Institute of India in which we are going to partner, currently has a lot of its own challenges taking care of the problems in their own country. That is why that situation is still where it is. We are hoping that there will be other partners who will join with bio-vaccine to get that project on its feet.

The Director-General of the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control , Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu said the country now carries out between 30,000 and 40,000 tests weekly, hinging Nigeria closer to the 2,000,000 test target. “There are rapid diagnostic test kits now which are easy to use, and we are working to get them to the frontlines across the states.

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