Nigeria will receive its first batch of Covid-19 vaccines this week, with nearly 4m of its 16m vaccines due to arrive in Africa’s most populous nation via the Covax scheme, The Guardian reports.
The first doses will be administered to frontline healthcare staff.
The 3.92m doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine are set to arrive on Tuesday, the National Primary Health Care Development Agency said in a statement reported by AFP.
“The delivery will mark the first arrival of Covid-19 vaccine in the country and make Nigeria the next West African country to benefit from the Covax facility after Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast),” it said.
Nigeria, which is home to 200 million people, aims to immunise at least 70% of its adult population over the next two years.
