By Abdulrahman Abdullahi
The special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on digital and new media, Tolu Ogunlesi, said on Thursday that a supplementary budget was being prepared to finance additional vaccine purchases.
About 4 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine will land in Nigeria next week in the first tranche of COVAX facility consignment to the country.
The 4 million doses come from the 16 million doses allocated to Nigeria by the global facility, leaving the country with a balance of 12 million doses.
“Covid Vaccines #Nigeria: – First Batch of 4 million (AstraZeneca) arriving by next week (out of 16m allocated to Nigeria by COVAX Facility),” Ogunlesi tweeted on via his verified handle @toluogunlesi.
“Supplementary Budget being prepared, to finance additional Vaccine purchases.
“Lagos is the pandemic epicentre in Nigeria. So I expect that it will naturally get the largest share of the vaccines, followed by FCT,” he tweeted.
