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COVID-19: Nigeria not disqualified from accessing vaccines

By Joyce Remi-Babayeju

The World Health Organization, WHO, Representative in Nigeria Dr Walter Kazadi Mulomboo has denied rumours that Nigeria  has been  disqualified from access COVID 19 vaccines.

This was revealed today at a meeting held in Abuja, Mulumbo said, “WHO has not disqualified any country in Africa from accessing COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX facility, but rather is supporting all countries to access vaccines as quickly as possible.”


According to him, presently  all  African countries including Nigeria  are expected to start accessing the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines by the end of February, stressing that the vaccine is under review by WHO for Emergency Use Listing and the outcome is expected soon.

Meanwhile out of the 88 million AstraZeneca doses allocated to African countries for the first phase, Nigeria has received by far the largest allocation, with 16 million doses, WHO revealed.

Explaining  further , Mulumbo said that in addition to this Nigeria  was among 18 countries considered to  finally get an  initial Pfizer doses. 

On the Africa continent, as of the 18 January deadline, COVAX received 13 submissions and a multi-agency committee evaluated the proposals of which 9 were recommended as ready to deploy the Pfizer vaccine including Nigeria, the WHO representative explained

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