The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has announced that the first batch of the expected COVAX Astrazeneca/Oxford vaccines have arrived in Nigeria.
The agency disclosed this via its verified Twitter handle on Tuesday after the vaccines landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.
The Federal Government had earlier hinted that 3.94 million doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine, manufactured by the Serum Institute of India were expected to arrive today, March 2, 2021.
Present at the airport to receive the vaccines are; the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19, Boss Mustapha, the DG of the NPHCDA, Dr Faisal Shuaib, the Minister for Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire and the DG of the Nigeria Centre for Diseases Control, NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu.