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Atiku Receives Another Dose Of COVID-19 Vaccine

  • Atiku Abubakar, has received second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
  • This comes barely two weeks after the former Nigerian vice president received the first vaccine.

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Former Nigerian Vice President and presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party Atiku Abubakar, has received another dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

Atiku’s media aide, Paul Ibe, confirmed this on his Twitter page.

This comes barely two weeks after the former Nigeria vice president received the first vaccine.

Paul Ibe tweeted: Atiku, who is currently in Dubai, UAE, received the first shot on January 6.

“H.E @atiku earlier today took his second dose of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.

“He had earlier had the first jab on the 6th of January,”.

Atiku  is suspected to be the first Nigerian to have received the vaccine.

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Meanwhile the Nigerian government had said it was expecting the delivery of 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the country in early 2021.

The chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum also assured Nigeria will get its first shipment of the vaccine in February.

The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine has been approved by several countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom.

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