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COVID-19 VACCINES
Obi urged the FG to consider appealing to rich nations, drug manufacturers for vaccines instead of spending billions of nairas to procure them.
The has restated Nigeria's preparedness to receive its very first batch of Covid-19 vaccines on Tuesday, March 2, 2021.
While giving his speech to a virtual G7 meeting on Friday, Boris Johnson pledged to give surplus COVID-19 vaccines to poorer countries.
UN Chief has decried the wildly uneven COVID-19 vaccinations as few nations are in possession of the majority of vaccines.
The Executive Director of the NPHCDA says 109 million Nigerians will be vaccinated in 2 years.
AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine appears to have shown limited effect against the variant discovered in South Africa.
NPHCDA boss has disclosed that Nigeria expects to get 40 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine from the AU in April.
The NPHCDA has stated that vaccine procurement by the FG will help boost Nigeria's Primary Healthcare system.
The FG has announced that the country expects to take delivery of its first set of Covid-19 vaccine doses in February.
The African Union has secured a provisional 270 million COVID-19 vaccine doses for African union members.
According to a disclosure made by the Minister of State for Health, the FG is yet to purchase any COVID-19 vaccine.
COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing capacity is expected to hit 6.8 billion doses in 2021.