The Federal Government has announced when it will begin to administer the COVID-19 vaccine on Nigerians.
The Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency NPHCDA, Dr. Faisal Shuaib made this in a letter sent to newsmen, inviting them for a sensitization meeting.
The federal government said that it will commence administering vaccine on Nigerians before the end of March.
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According to the letter, “The management of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency NPHCDA wishes to express profound gratitude for your unflinching support to the ongoing effort to stop COVID-19 transmission in Nigeria.
“The Federal Government of Nigeria, through the National Primary Health Care Development Agency NPHCDA with the support of our development partners, is planning to introduce COVID-19 Vaccine from the 1st quarter of 2021, to protect the citizens and stop further spread of the virus in the country.
“This is to inform you that as part of the preparatory activities, NPHCDA has scheduled a sensitization meeting with Media Gatekeepers as critical stakeholders in this plan”.
The sensitization meeting will hold virtually on Friday, January 8.
Shuaib had at a briefing of the Presidential Taskforce PTF on COVID-19 in Tuesday said Nigeria will take delivery of 100,000 doses of the Pfizer and BioNTech approved COVID-19 vaccines by the end of January.
