Nigeria is expecting COVID-19 vaccines by January 2021— Minister of Health

 

The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire has said that the country is expecting COVID-19 vaccines by January 2021.

Ehanire disclosed this on Wednesday while speaking with the reporters after the 28th virtual Federal Executive Council meeting held at council chamber of the presidential villa, Abuja. 

He stated:

“We have a technical working group working on the question of the vaccine. We have signed up with the World Health Organisation and GAVI for access to vaccines immediately they are available. But you know that these vaccines are new and the producers are, first of all, not giving any indemnity.

“The big countries where these vaccines are manufactured are of course giving themselves the priority to serve their own citizens first and we hope that the pressure from the World Health Organisation and GAVI (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation) will be able to get a reserve for other countries which themselves are not manufacturing and be able to attend to what we signed up to; we signed up for the advanced market participation of the COVAX,”