The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced that it is on course to procure 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine in the early weeks of 2021.
Executive secretary of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Shuaib Faisal disclosed this during the media briefing of the presidential task force on COVID-19, on Thursday in Abuja.
“We are on course to access safe vaccine in the first quarter of 2021. We will be leveraging on the polio platform to ensure effective delivery of vaccines to our vulnerable population,” he said.
Shuaib noted that health workers and vulnerable citizens would be amongst the first set of people that will get the vaccine.
“We have established a supra-ministerial advisory committee to ensure a seamless administration. A technical group meets every week and has devised a risk communication plan to deliver safe vaccines to Nigerians, he added.
