COVID-19: Experts worry over challenges as Nigeria rolls out vaccines
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FG awaits additional 42m doses from Africa Union
By Sola Ogundipe & Gabriel Olawale
With the roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign weekend in Nigeria, the plan to vaccinate over 70 percent of the population between 2020 and 2021 began in earnest.
The roll-out began at the National Hospital Abuja following a positive outcome of the final assessment by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC.
Last Tuesday, Nigeria received 3.92 million doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine, being the first shipment of 16 million doses allocated to the country through the COVAX Facility to vaccinate 20 percent of the population.
Emirates Boeing 777-300ER aircraft carrying 3.94 million doses of Oxford Astrazeneca vaccines arrives Nnamdi Azikiwe international Airport, Abuja, on Tuesday, March 2, 2021. PHOTO: TWITTER/NPHCDA
Nigeria has taken delivery of the 3.92 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine, making it the third West African country to take delivery under the COVAX scheme, after Ghana and Ivory Coast. x
“I AM HERE, NIGERIA,” National Primary Health Care Development Agency tweeted on Tuesday.
Over the coming months, Nigeria expects 16 million doses from COVAX, a facility for poor and middle-income countries co-led by Gavi, the vaccine alliance, and the World Health Organization, with UNICEF as an implementing partner.
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Emirates Boeing 777-300ER aircraft carrying 3.94 million doses of Oxford Astrazeneca vaccines arrives Nnamdi Azikiwe international Airport, Abuja, on Tuesday, March 2, 2021. PHOTO: TWITTER/NPHCDA
Nigeria has taken delivery of the 3.92 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine, making it the third West African country to take delivery under the COVAX scheme, after Ghana and Ivory Coast.
“I AM HERE, NIGERIA,” National Primary Health Care Development Agency tweeted on Tuesday.
Over the coming months, Nigeria expects 16 million doses from COVAX, a facility for poor and middle-income countries co-led by Gavi, the vaccine alliance, and the World Health Organization, with UNICEF as an implementing partner.