Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are pictured at the Sheba Medical Center, Israel. Photo: AFP
Save for its robust crop of health professionals and researchers, several things are awfully wrong with the domestic production of vaccines. There is severe contempt for, and neglect of science and technology in the country. Linked to this is poor funding. Although the virus surfaced in December 2019 in Wuhan, China – that gave ample time to make amends – the Federal Government budgeted just N5.4 billion in the 2021 Appropriation Act for three leading public vaccine institutes. At N4.
As a consolation, Ekiti State governor, Kayode Fayemi, says that Nigeria is among the 12 African country that will benefit from the first shipment of the vaccine. The challenge is that the shipment will arrive in February. At the rate the infection is ballooning, much damage could have been done by then. In addition, the Major General Muhammadu Buhari regime says it has provided N6.
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