Nigeria’s Minister has disclosed that the country may be receiving its first set of vaccines in a few days.
Russia has approved its third vaccine against the coronavirus disease for domestic use.
WHO has disclosed that around 130 countries, with 2.5 billion people, are yet to administer a single dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
Nigeria was not shortlisted for the Pfizer vaccines by the COVAX global initiative.
The Minister disclosed that the NPHCDA is currently assessing gaps related to challenges in the distribution of COVID-19 vaccine.
Nigeria records 1,354 new cases of covid-19 on Tuesday, 5th January 2021
Scientists in the UK are worried that newly developed Covid-19 vaccines may not be able to protect against new strain of the virus.