Anonymous ID: 731e9c Dec. 14, 2021, 12:28 a.m. No.15190359   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>0443 >>0650 >>0932 >>1012

African nation to destroy 1 million Covid-19 vaccines

 

Nigeria is going to destroy a million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19, a top health official has said, promising that the country will no longer be accepting jabs with short shelf life.

The vaccines that were beyond their date of use have been withdrawn and will be destroyed in line with the protocol, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, the Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), said on Monday.

 

No Nigerian citizens have been injected with expired jabs, Shuaib assured during a briefing. The country will accept no more fast-expiring vaccines, as it did previously, he added.

 

So far, only 3.9 million of Nigeria’s population of over 211 million people have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to Shuaib.

 

The number of those who also received a booster shot on top of the first two stood at just 496 people.

 

Last week, the Nigerian government confirmed reports that around a million doses of the AstraZeneca jab, which the country had received from Europe as part of the COVAX vaccine sharing initiative, expired in November.

 

The media said the vaccines were within four to six weeks of expiry when they arrived and couldn’t have been put to use in time.

 

Nigerian health minister Dr. Osagie Ehanire had earlier pointed out that donation of surplus Covid-19 jabs with short or expiring shelf lives has been “of great concern internationally.”

 

https://www.rt.com/news/543120-nigeria-astrazeneca-coronavirus-vaccine/

Anonymous ID: 731e9c Dec. 14, 2021, 2:33 a.m. No.15190567   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>0650 >>0932 >>1012

Prominent Greek antivax journo & politician dies of Covid

 

Giorgos Tragas, an outspoken opponent of Covid-19 restrictions and vaccine mandates, has died from the deadly virus. He was admitted to hospital on December 4 with acute breathing issues, and his condition then worsened.

 

On Tuesday, the Sotiria Hospital in Athens issued a statement confirming the 72-year-old had lost his battle against Covid-19. He had been admitted 10 days prior, having been diagnosed with coronavirus on November 30.

 

“Today, 14.12.2021, at 03.10, the journalist Giorgos Tragas, head of the Free People movement, died in the ICU of the Sotiria Hospital,” the medical facility said.

 

They confirmed that Tragas had not been vaccinated against Covid-19. He had previously claimed to have an underlying health condition that made him hesitant to get inoculated against the virus.

 

In February, angered by Covid-related restrictions, Tragas had started his own right-wing political movement, Free People. Its aim was to defend democracy and fight back against what it described as the “health dictatorship” that had been prompted in Greece by the pandemic.

 

On November 30, he revealed in a Facebook post that he had been diagnosed with the virus. “I am dancing the tango with Covid-19,” it read.

 

Tragas had enjoyed a long career in journalism, and had been among the best-known TV personalities in the early ’90s, when commercial stations made their debut in Greece. He had regularly appeared as a political commentator on primetime shows.

 

He was no stranger to controversy, and had been accused of promoting racist views related to the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn political movement.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/543131-greece-covid19-death-vaccine/