TETFund-Sponsored COVID-19 Vaccine Ready For Trial

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The vaccine development efforts of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has started yielding visible results as the COVID-19 vaccine project sponsored

It would be recalled that TETFund awarded a total of N1,250,000,000.00 , distributed to four clusters of researchers. One of the clusters, which is the Vaccine Production Cluster, got a total grant of N450m.

Bashir Muhammad Bello of Usman Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, revealed that it has become a matter of urgency for Africa to join the rest of the world in the production of its own vaccine, as it was estimated that the continent currently imports 99 per cent of its vaccines and consumes 25 per cent of global vaccine supply.

 

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