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Nigeria to reopen vaccination

Nigeria to reopen vaccination

NIGERIA is expecting a second shipment of nearly 4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines by early August and plans to resume giving out first doses, which had been halted to save its supply for second doses. Africa's most population has so far given a first dose to only around 2 million of its 200 million people. Fewer than 700,000 having received a second dose. Nigeria has been rationing 3.92 million doses it received through the COVAX global vaccine sharing programme in March, with its future supplies put in doubt by an export ban from India. In April, the government told…
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Nigeria expects to get its first COVID-19 vaccine doses in January

Nigeria expects to get its first COVID-19 vaccine doses in January

FELIX ONUAH NIGERIA expects to receive its first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine in January, the country's health minister has announced, but officials do not yet know which one they will get. Africa's most populous nation has not been as hard-hit by the coronavirus pandemic as others on the continent such as South Africa, but it warned last week of a second wave of COVID-19 infections. Health Minister Osagie Ehanire said that Nigeria has a working group in place to handle vaccines, and is working with the COVAX programme backed by the World Health Organization. "We have 200 million citizens.…
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