More Nigerians take up COVID shots after expired doses destroyed
28 January 2022 |
11:28 am
Abubakar Yusuf, an informal Nigerian trader, said he was scared to get a COVID-19 shot after hearing the country had stocks of expired vaccines. That changed, however, when health authorities destroyed more than a million expired doses last month.
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