AstraZeneca Vaccines COVID19 side effects___NAFDAC FG speaks

The National Agency for Food and Administration and Control(NAFDAC) Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, has said the AstraZeneca vaccine used in treating COVID-19 has no side effect.

Meanwhile, on Thursday, March 11, President Muhammadu Buhari’s led government through the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, urged Nigerians to rest assured and be confident in the nation’s vaccine programme, noting that the country never received the AstraZeneca with a suspected side effect.

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Recall that the federal government had launched the COVID-19 vaccination exercises in the country on Friday, March 5, 2021.

Adeyeye said “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.”

In furtherance, she added that there was no medicine without its side effect while insisting that

While insisting that the effectiveness of the vaccine outweigh the risk, she added that there was no medicine without its side effect.

She said that the agency also believed in herbal medicine, but it must be backed with research before such could be approved, NAN reports.