President Muhammadu Buhari had presented a supplementary appropriation bill of N895.8 billion to the National Assembly for approval.
“Preliminary investigations indicated they had most likely been injected with saline solution in place of the Covishield vaccine.”
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, read Mr Buhari’s letter at the commencement of Tuesday’s plenary.
The EU said this is as a result of the initiatives already taken by the Ghanaian government towards the domestic manufacturing of vaccines.
“Private importation of COVID-19 vaccines has not been authorised due to reports of substandard, falsified vaccines.”
Conspiracies about the COVID-19 vaccines have proliferated on social media platforms during the pandemic.
“The meeting is of a single-item agenda, which will discuss the delivery of the COVID-19 vaccines.”
Brent oil was up $1.28, or two percent, to $63.98 a barrel by 1050 GMT.
“No country is safe until all countries are safe,” said Ms. Moeti.
The minister stressed that Nigeria had put all facilities in place to receive the vaccines.
