The first batch of 3.9million doses of the Astrazeneca Oxford University COVID-19 vaccines have arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
Heritage Times gathered that the vaccines were conveyed from the Serum Institute, India via an Emirates Airline aircraft.
The vaccines which touched down at around 11.30am on Tuesday, means Nigeria is now the third African country, after Ghana and the Ivory Coast to receive this brand of vaccine.
Upon arrival of the vaccines, Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Mr. Boss Mustapha handed them over to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC and the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA for further scrutiny before administration.
The supply is part of the16 million doses of the vaccines which the country is expecting from the COVAX facility.
The COVAX facility promised access to vaccines for up to 20 percent of participating countries’ population with an initial supply beginning in the first quarter of the year to immunize three per cent of their populations.
