A researcher at the Nigeria Institute of Medical Research (NIMR), Professor Richard Adegbola, has raised that alarm at the current Covid-19 vaccines being produced, saying they are not the best for Africa.

Adegbola also warned African countries to be wary of the vaccines being donated to African countries as he does not think that they are the best for the people of the continent as none of them has been evaluated in the continent.

Adegbola, an elected member of the Sabin Vaccine Institute Board of Directors in Washington D.C., stated this at a meeting on the implementation strategy on COVID-19 vaccine development held at NIMR in Lagos on Friday.

According to him, nobody will take a vaccine in the U.S. or UK that has not been evaluated in their setting, noting that a vaccine that has high efficacy in the UK may not have a high efficacy in Africa.

He also maintained that producing a vaccine in “our settings would help to evaluate the efficacy of such a vaccine on the people of the continent.”

“I don’t think the ones available now are the best for Africans because none of them has been evaluated here.

“Nobody will take a vaccine in the U.S. or UK that has not been evaluated in their settings and a vaccine that has a high efficacy in the UK may or may not have high efficacy here in Africa,” he said.

Adegbola also noted that Africa produced only one per cent of vaccination being used in the continent, and called for the prioritisation of safety as a key element in development.

He further explained that vaccine production is different from when drugs or chemicals are being produced, noting that safety is very crucial.

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Meanwhile our leaders here are forcefully passing laws that revolve around vaccination and vaccine support.