COVID-19: Nigeria Approves AstraZeneca For Emergency Use

The Federal Government of Nigeria has approved AstraZeneca for the emergency treatment of the Coronavirus pandemic.
The country, through a regulator, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control(NAFDAC), on Thursday said it has approved the AstraZeneca vaccine for emergency use authorisation.
This was made known to journalists by Professor Christiana Adeyeye, the NAFDAC Director-General.
The vaccine was recently approved by the World Health Organisation (WHO) for emergency use.
In a press briefing, NAFDAC says it got the dossier of the vaccine a week ago, and that its safety committee went to work immediately to evaluate its safety and efficacy for Nigerians.
The director-general said after a thorough evaluation of the vaccine, the regulatory body, in unison with the Federal Ministry of Health, approved it for emergency use.
The Pandemic has taken its toll in Nigerian just like other African countries. 
However, South Africa are the worst hit in the continent with the country even discovering a variant of the virus in the country, which has now reportedly spread to other countries.