Nigeria Receives 16m Doses Of Vaccine

World Health Organisation, says Nigeria has received a total of 16 million AstraZeneca doses of COVID-19 vaccines out of the 88 million allocated to Africa.

The WHO Country Representative in Nigeria, Dr Walter Kazadi Mulomboo, said these at a joint press conference with the Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA, Dr Faisal Shuaib, in Abuja, Saturday.

This is coming after the organisation explained that it has not disqualified any country in Africa from accessing COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX facility.

Who added that it would rather be supporting all countries to access vaccines as quickly as possible.

The WHO representative insisted that “WHO has not disqualified any country in Africa from accessing COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX facility, but rather is supporting all countries to access vaccines as quickly as possible.”

“Of the 88 million AstraZeneca doses allocated to African countries for the first phase, Nigeria has received by far the largest allocation, with 16 million doses,” he said.