Nigeria will begin administering the second batch of
COVID-19 vaccines from August 10, the presidential steering committee (PSC) on
COVID-19 said on Saturday.
Willie Bassey, the director of press, PSC on COVID-19, made
this known in a statement issued in Abuja.
He said the commencement of the second batch vaccination is
pertinent as the country battles the third wave of the pandemic.
“The PSC has received over four million doses of Moderna vaccine donated by the U.S. Government to Nigeria.
“In view of the
above, the inoculation is scheduled from Tuesday, Aug. 10, at the Federal
Medical Centre, Jabi, off Airport road, Abuja,” he said.
The federal government on August 1 received 4.08m doses of
the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from the United States.
The vaccine doses were received by the United Nations
International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) on behalf of the federal
government and stored at the country’s National Strategic Cold Store near
Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.
The Moderna vaccine had been listed for emergency use by the
World Health Organisation (WHO) and approved by the National Agency for Food
and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).
It is the second batch of vaccines received by Nigeria after
the country had run out of the initial four million doses of the AstraZeneca
COVID-19 vaccine received from the COVAX facility.
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