World Health Organization (WHO) has said Nigeria will receive 60million doses of Oxford/Astrazeneca COVID-19 vaccine at the end of February.
The announcement was made by Tolu Ogunlesi, Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on on Digital/New Media via his Twitter page on Saturday afternoon, February 6.
WHO: The Covax facility has formally communicated to Nigeria the allocation of 16 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, with the expectation that the doses will start arriving by the end of February 2021. pic.twitter.com/BzcDkDY2b3
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) February 6, 2021
Quoting National Primary Health care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Ogunlesi stated that frontline health workers, elderly & persons with co-morbidities and strategic country leadership would be on Nigeria’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution priority list.
Nigeria’s Covid Vaccine distribution priority, according to @NphcdaNG:
– Frontline health workers
– Elderly, and Persons with co-morbidities
– Strategic country leadership16m doses of Astra Zeneca being expected by Nigeria over the next couple of months, starting this month
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) February 6, 2021
He stated that the information about COVID-19 allocation was shared at a joint press conference between NPHCDA and WHO which took place today.
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The Presidential aide expressed that the press conference held to address misinformation earlier circulated that WHO disqualified Nigeria from receiving Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
There’s an @NphcdaNG–@WHO Joint Press Conference at 2pm today. That’s in a few minutes. To address the Covid vaccine misinformation being peddled by @MobilePunch and other papers.
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) February 6, 2021
In another tweet, Ogunlesi quoted WHO as saying it did not disqualify any African country from COVAX-facilitated vaccines but rather is supporting all countries to access vaccines as quickly as possible.
WHO added that all African countries are expected to start accessing vaccines by the end of February.
WHO: WHO did not disqualify any African country from Covax vaccines but rather is supporting all countries to access vaccines as quickly as possible.. all African countries are expected to start accessing vaccines by the end of Feb.
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) February 6, 2021
