A man buys smuggled and/or counterfeit medicine 14 June 2007 on the Adjame market in Abidjan. Ivorian pharmacists are worried about the multiplication of fraudulent street medecine that are, according to them, threatening their trade and the health of patients. Fraudulent street medecine sales have risen by 15 to 25 percent in the last two years in Ivory Coast and represent a 53 million euro a year loss for the legal pharmaceutical sector, according to the chairman of the national order council, overseeing the trade, Parfait Kouassi. AFP PHOTO / ISSOUF SANOGO (Photo credit should read ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images)
The federal government has raised the alarm of the sales of fake coronavirus vaccine on sale in Kano State.
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, made this disclosure at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) briefing on COVID-19 on Tuesday.
The minister lamented warned residents against patronising the hawkers.
“You must ignore the vaccine being hawked in Kano, which is called the COVID-19 vaccine”, he said.
“It is yellow in colour, it is not certified by anybody. Please don’t patronise the hawkers.”
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