Nigeria to receive covid-19 vaccine on Tuesday

Nigeria’s Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 Mr. Boss Mustapha has confirmed that the country will on Tuesday, March 2nd, receive its first shipment of covid-19 COVAX vaccines.

Nigeria is set to receive its first four million shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from COVAX, a global scheme set up to procure and distribute vaccines for free, as the world races to contain the coronavirus pandemic.

COVAX, which was set up in April 2020 to help ensure a fairer distribution of coronavirus vaccines between the rich and poor nations, said it would deliver two billion doses to member-states by the end of 2021.

Boss Mustapha said further that about 84 million doses are expected from COVAX to inoculate 20 per cent of the Nigerian population.

In addition, he said that the federal government also has another source from the Harvard facility which is the African Vaccine Action team, a combination of Oxford AstraZeneca and Johnson and Johnson vaccines.

CBATV had earlier reported that the Nigerian government is expecting its first four million doses of the vaccines to arrive in the country by the end of February.

Nigeria has so far registered 155,000 Coronavirus cases and 1,905 deaths.

Ghana and Ivory Coast have received the COVAX Covid-19 vaccines, with Ivory Coast expected to be the first African country to roll out the vaccines today.