As the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic scourge continues to fester, the Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Faisal Shuaib, has said that the Federal government has approved the immediate use of the Sinopharm BBIBP-CorV COVID-19 vaccine in Nigeria.

The approval of the Sinopharm vaccine is coming weeks after NAFDAC approved the Moderna and Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccines for emergency use in Nigeria.

The Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine is an inactivated COVID-19 vaccine, which was approved by the World Health Organisation (WHO) for emergency use.

Speaking in Abuja, Shuaib said the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) approved the vaccine, adding that the vaccine was developed by Sinopharm’s Beijing Institute of Biological Products,