{"id":1149969,"date":"2021-12-24T10:19:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T15:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1149969"},"modified":"2021-12-24T10:19:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T15:19:54","slug":"pictures-nigeria-destroys-one-million-expired-coronavirus-vaccines-donated-by-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pictures-nigeria-destroys-one-million-expired-coronavirus-vaccines-donated-by-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Pictures: Nigeria Destroys One Million Expired Coronavirus Vaccines Donated by West"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpictures-nigeria-destroys-one-million-expired-coronavirus-vaccines-donated-by-west%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1149969&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Nigeria\u2019s federal government ceremonially <a href=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/nigeria-destroys-over-one-million-expired-covid-19-vaccine-doses\/\">destroyed<\/a> more than one million doses of expired AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines this week, announcing on Wednesday that the action was designed in part to inspire vaccine-hesitant Nigerians to \u201chave faith\u201d in the nation\u2019s state-run coronavirus inoculation drive, Nigeria\u2019s <em>Punch<\/em> newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>Various Nigerian government officials representing the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, and the Abuja Environmental Protection Agency gathered at a landfill in Abuja on December 22 to preside over a ceremony in which a dump truck unloaded cardboard boxes filled with unused coronavirus vaccines into a vacant section of the site.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nigeria destroyed more than one million doses of expired AstraZeneca vaccines. The destruction came more than a week after health authorities said some doses donated by rich Western nations had a shelf life that left only weeks to administer the shots <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z0dTDiHLN4\">https:\/\/t.co\/Z0dTDiHLN4<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7Ikf55hm7k\">pic.twitter.com\/7Ikf55hm7k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Reuters (@Reuters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reuters\/status\/1473780386064846848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe have successfully withdrawn 1,066,214 doses of expired AstraZeneca vaccines. We have kept our promise to be transparent to Nigerians. The destruction today is an opportunity for Nigerians to have faith in our vaccination program,\u201d Faisal Shuaib, the executive director of Nigeria\u2019s National Primary Health Care Development Agency,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/nigeria-destroys-1-mln-donated-astrazeneca-vaccines-with-short-shelf-life-2021-12-22\/\">told<\/a> reporters gathered at the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLogistics and bottlenecks involved in clearing the vaccines also led to a loss of valuable time in distributing the vaccines across the country,\u201d Nigerian public health officials acknowledged on Wednesday, according to <em>Punch<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cRecently, like many other African countries, Nigeria has seen a surge in [coronavirus] vaccine supply, which has highlighted other issues relating to distribution and hesitation by citizens to get inoculated,\u201d Reuters observed on December 22.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19251690\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237379309.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19251690\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237379309-1024x731-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"707\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Expired AstraZeneca coronavirus&nbsp; vaccine vials are seen at the Gosa dump site in Abuja, Nigeria on December 22, 2021. (KOLA SULAIMON\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_19251698\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237379222.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19251698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237379222-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Expired AstraZeneca coronavirus disease vaccines are pushed into a pit at the Gosa dump site in Abuja, Nigeria on December 22, 2021. (KOLA SULAIMON\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Nigerian federal government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/nigeria-destroy-around-1-million-expired-covid-19-vaccines-senior-official-2021-12-13\/\">announced<\/a> plans to destroy the unused batch of AstraZeneca vaccines on December 13. Shuaib told reporters at the time the decision came after Nigeria realized it did not have enough time or resources to distribute the vaccines before their expiration date. COVAX, a World Health Organization (W.H.O.)-led initiative that facilitates coronavirus vaccine shipments to poorer nations, donated the AstraZeneca vaccine batch to Nigeria\u2019s government in October.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/france-donates-covid-19-vaccine-nigeria-under-covax-scheme-2021-10-14\/\">received<\/a> a shipment containing 501,600 doses of AstraZeneca\u2019s coronavirus vaccine from France through COVAX on October 14.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. \u2026 contributed to the first multilateral donation of AstraZeneca vaccine [to Nigeria] in March 2021,\u201d the U.S. Embassy &amp; Consulate in Nigeria <a href=\"https:\/\/ng.usembassy.gov\/u-s-donates-more-than-3-5-million-doses-of-covid-19-vaccine-to-nigeria-via-covax\/\">recalled<\/a> in mid-October when announcing its latest donation of coronavirus vaccines to the West African state. Washington donated 3,577,860 doses of Pfizer vaccines to Nigeria on October 14.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19251714\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237379401.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19251714\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237379401-1024x693-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"670\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A truck offloads more AstraZeneca coronavirus disease vaccines at the Gosa dump site in Abuja, Nigeria on December 22, 2021. ( KOLA SULAIMON\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nigeria has struggled to successfully administer the roughly 10 million COVAX-donated vaccines it has received from Western nations over the past several months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFewer than four percent of adults in Africa\u2019s most populous nation of over 200 million have been fully vaccinated,\u201d Reuters reported on October 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s federal government ceremonially destroyed more than one million doses of expired AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines this week, announcing on Wednesday that the action was designed in part to inspire vaccine-hesitant &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}