Nigeria may spend over N540bn on COVID-19 vaccines
• FG reveals plan to immunise over 120 million Nigerians
• Minister, top health officials meet NASS Monday over funding
Our correspondents
NIGERIA may spend about $1.4bn (N540.4bn, at the official exchange rate of $1: N386) to procure and distribute 218,400,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines,
Sunday PUNCH has learnt.
The figure is based on estimates of the World Health Organisation as regards the total amount of funds that Africa would need to pursue a vaccination drive.
According to the WHO, Africa will need at least $9bn (N3.4tn) to procure and distribute 1.4 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines.