Spain Donates 4.4m Covid-19 Vaccines To Nigeria

Nigeria has received a total of 4.4m Covid-19 vaccines from Spain.

The donation, it said, was in line with its unconditional defence of fair, equitable, and universal access to vaccines against COVID-19.

A statement on Wednesday from the Embassy of Spain in Nigeria disclosed that the handover ceremony of the single-dose vaccines took place at the premises of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency in Abuja on Tuesday.

In attendance at the event was the Executive Director of the Agency, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, the Ambassadors of Spain, Greece, Sweden, and Austria; UNICEF Director of Health, Mr. Eduardo Celades; WHO Deputy Country Representative, Mr. Alexander Chimbaru, and the European Union envoy, Ambassador Samuela Isopi.

According to the embassy, the donation makes Spain the third donor of COVID-19 vaccines to Nigeria.

It announced that the donation was the largest Spain had given to a single country in Africa so far.

The donation also positions Spain as the seventh-largest donor of vaccines in the world, with 70 million doses delivered so far.

“Spain is fully committed to multilateral efforts.

“Consequently, this donation, and more than 90 per cent of Spanish donations, has been made through the COVAX mechanism.

“Additionally, this donation constitutes one more action of “Team Europe” in Nigeria, integrated by the EU and its member states.

“Altogether, the EU and EU countries have donated 30 million vaccines to Nigeria so far”.