Dr Faisal Shuaib, NPHCDA’s Executive Director, inspects the US donation of four million COVID-19 vaccines.
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IBADAN – On Sunday 1 August, two planes carrying four million doses of the Moderna vaccine from the US touched down in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city.
With the arrival of the new doses, Nigeria will be able to resume its COVID-19 vaccination programme which was suspended on 22 July when the Nigeria Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) announced it had exhausted the four million doses of Covishield (Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID vaccine) the country got via the COVAX facility.
Even though Nigeria’s delivery was the largest shipment by COVAX at the time, it was a drop in the ocean that did not do much in closing the vaccination gap in Nigeria, which has a population of over 211 million people.
At present, only 1.4 million people are fully vaccinated, which represents 0.68% of the population.
“We are excited that this [delivery] presents another opportunity for us to advance the protection of Nigerians against the COVID-19 virus, especially against the Delta variant,” said Dr Faisal Shuaib, NPHCDA’s Executive Director.
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