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Access to Vaccine in Nigeria
The U.S Food and Drug Administration is the sole agency who will certify the Pfizer vaccine for use. The pharmaceutical company said its vaccine is tried, tested and with 90% accuracy, it is ready to distribute. Here’s what we know about accessing Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in Nigeria.
The FDA says it only needs at least 50% effectiveness to give the vaccine its approval.
Distribution company waiting in line to deliver have to set up complex and expensive systems of sub-zero warehouses, refrigerated transportations and vaccination points before they begin.
Several companies are working on vaccines with different testing methods. So far, Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine is the closest anyone around the world has. However, its complexity is challenging even to the richest countries and investors around the world.
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Japan, the U.S. Norway and the U.K., who have pre-ordered doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine also have difficult delivery logistics to meet.
They have to take – bad roads, faulty transport systems, power supply cut – into consideration and countries who are yet to order must do the same.
Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine in Nigeria
Pharmaceutical experts in Sutter Health, U.S gave an insight into this process. It said the vaccine is shipped from Pfizer on “dry ice” with speciality packaging box that has been under development for some time.
Storing and distributing the vaccine properly cost Sutter $100,000, it said. The freezers run on car power and allowed transport around Northern California.
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When the vaccines arrive vaccination centres, they go under -70 degrees celsius that is -50 degrees standard home freezer. After five days of storage in that temperature without injecting, Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine goes bad.
Nigeria has the option of importing the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in bulk and packing them in flasks at a local plant. But that doesn’t lower the cost, not for the country and not for many developing nations in Africa.
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Though there is no rush since the Americas, India and Europe need the vaccine more with new rising infection rate. But when the times do come, Nigeria must ensure it has the capacity to acquire and deliver the vaccine across to its 200 million citizens.
Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine which requires two injections will be limited in doses, that much we know. More so, the limit of immunity in terms of years is not known.
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