There are increased presence of fake COVID-19 vaccines in the African continent, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has said
The Director-General of the agency,Prof.Mojisola Adeyeye,disclosed this in Gombe, Gombe State at the North East Zonal destruction exercise of fake, counterfeit, substandard, expired, and unwholesome products by the Investigation and Enforcement (I&E) team of NAFDAC.
‘’The public must be on the look out for those spurious and counterfeit vaccines and other regulated products’’, she said, adding that NAFDAC on its own part will ensure continuous surveillance of those products ‘’and we shall continue to enforce the regulations governing these products in Nigeria’’.
She promised that the agency would not rest on its oars until the Nigeria markets are rid of unwholesome food, falsified medicines, and dangerous cosmetics.
On Sunday,the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) detained several air travelers at Malam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA) for entering the country with fake COVID-19 vaccination certificate.
The passengers had arrived Kano airport at about 8:00m aboard Air Badr, a Sudanese airline from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
But,checks by the officials officials of the agency revealed that all COVID-19 vaccination certificates the travellers presented were fake.
The development forced the authorities amid safety concerns prohibited anyone to disembark from the air bus.
After several hours of faceoff with the authorities, they were ferried into a hall at the airport around 5:00pm from where they would taken to isolation centres for two weeks on quarantine.
