Covid-19 in Nigeria: Nigeria government release 10bn for local vaccine production
Nigeria Minister of Health Dr Osagie Ehanire say di Federal Government don release 10 billion to support domestic vaccine production.
Di minister say di government dey explore di option of local production of di vaccines as dem don begin negotiate wit di producer. Im tok dis one for Monday briefing by di Presidential Task Force (PTF) on Covid-19. All You Need to know about di first batch of Covid-19 Vaccine to land Nigeria Di first set of Nigerians to get di Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine go get dia first shot for March 2021. Nigeria dey expect to take delivery of 100 thousand doses of di Pfizer vaccine for end of January. Di vaccine na donation from di Covax facility and di aim na to try slowdown and interrupt di transmission of di virus for di kontri. Oga kpata-kpata of National Primary Health Care Development Agency,( NPHCDA) Faisal Shuaib bin announce say dis first batch no be for everibodi. Who dis vaccine go reach? How much di vaccine go cost Dis first batch of vaccine dey free for everyone. Pesin no gatz pay moni to get immunised, according to di Nigerian government. Dis na becos goment no pay shishi for di vaccine as dem get am as donation from di Covax facility. Nigeria also dey hope to purchase more vaccine doses just like oda African kontris lie South Africa wey don pay to get one million doses of di vaccine to immunise dia citizens. Any oda vaccine go enta Nigeria? Yes. Nigerian goment dey yarn wit China, Russia and oda pipo dem to get about 42 million doses of anoda different kind of Covid-19 vaccine. Di NPHCDA wey dey in charge of di vaccine go introduce di vaccine in four phases. While di Pfizer one go dey ground for di first quarter of di year, odas like di Moderna vaccine go come within di second, third and fourth phase.