Nigeria To Receive 4Million COVID19 Vaccine On Tuesday

Boss Mustapha, chairman of the presidential task force (PTF) and secretary to the government of the federation, says Nigeria will receive four million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday.

This was disclosed in a message on Saturday night.

Bashir Ahmad, media aide to President Muhamadu Buhari, confirmed the development in a post, adding that the shipment expected will contain doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine.

According to him, the vaccine allocation being expected is at no financial cost to Nigeria, adding the batch courtesy of the corporate facility.

The government had earlier said that the first four million doses of the vaccines would arrive the country by the end of February and later said it might be first week in March.

Mustapha commended the nation’s health workers and various frontline workers for their efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic.