Nigeria to Receive 57m Covid – 19 Vaccines in Few Months
Nigeria is set to receive 57 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines over the next few months, the authorities say.
Nigeria is set to receive 57 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines over the next few months, the authorities say.
“We have applied for 41 million doses of a combination of Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines,” Faisal Shuaib, who heads the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, told the Reuters news agency.
An additional 16 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine are expected in February from the World Health Organization-backed Covax programme.
As Nigeria fights a second wave of Covid-19, officials are looking to multiple sources to secure more vaccines to inoculate its enormous population.
During a press conference in the capital, Abuja on Monday, the health minister also said the country’s drug agency was looking into vaccines from Russia and India.
So far Nigeria, with a population of around 186 million, has officially recorded over 130,000 cases of Covid-19, including 1,600 deaths.
