There are now 21,668 active cases across the country in the last 24 hours, according to NCDC data.
The federal government had received the commitment of 1.5 million and 100,000 doses of AstraZeneca from MTN and India.
“The FCTA has decided that this illegality cannot stand.”
“We are currently scaling up on genomic surveillance, working very closely with ACEGID.”
A spokesman of NCDC described the sale of the vaccine as “crazy”.
Nigeria’s active COVID-19 cases in the isolation centres stood at 24,317 as of January 29.
The Chinese-run firm was closed after senior officials who tested positive to COVID-19 were still coming to work despite knowing their contagious status.
The disease control office said the new infections were recorded in 23 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
“Consider everyone as a suspected COVID-19 case, and ensure universal precautions always,’’ they said.
He bewailed poor resource setting in the country.
