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At least 122,410 Nigerians have been vaccinated with the Oxford-AstraZeneca since the launch of the vaccination exercise on March 5, 2021, the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 said.

The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has called on Nigerians to ensured that the AstraZeneca vaccine being administered to them carries the original label of the company. The Agency revealed that the warning has become necessary as there are chances of fake dosages being in circulation in the country. The Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye issued the statement today in Abuja. 

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) via its official Twitter page has announced that the country’s death toll still stands at 2,027. Although, 130 cases from 13 states were reported on Friday; NCDC last recorded a death on March 17. Aside from Sunday, Friday is the third day this week no case of COVID-19 related death was reported.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has said that the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective. EU’s Medicines Agency Chief, Emer Cooke made this known to newsmen during a press conference after a probe of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine by the body’s safety committee on Thursday.

President Emmanuel Macron of France has suspended the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine in his country insists that until the European Medicine Agency (EMA) review it. Macron’s decision to suspend the vaccine as a precautionary measure following the alarm raised by some European countries within the week, but hoping to resume when the EMA give it a node, the president told the press. He said, “We have a simple guide, to be informed by science and the competent health authorities and to do it as part of a European strategy,”.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NDCD) has yesterday recorded 120 persons infected with the coronavirus,the lowest daily recordin the country in the last five months. The health agency stated this on its official Twitter handle yesterday pushing the active cases in the country to now, 13,245. Nigerian government since the outbreak of the coronavirus on February 27, last year has so far only tested 1,601, 396 persons of the infection.