Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine
U.S donates additional 2.5 million doses of Pfizer vaccine to Nigeria
United States has donated 2.5 million Pfizer vaccine doses to Nigeria, to help fight the COVID-19 virus.
This was disclosed in a statement released by the US Mission in Nigeria, Thursday.
According to the statement “over the next several weeks, the vaccines will be available at major markets, shopping malls, event centers, motor parks, airports, places of employment, and religious institutions as part of Nigeria’s mass vaccination campaign“.
Officials of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) who received the vaccines, assured that the medicines will be taken to cold storage ahead of distribution to over 3,000 health facilities across all 36 states and FCT-Abuja.
Till date, the United States has donated over 13.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine in partnership with COVAX, and has also provided more than $119 million in COVID-19 related health assistance to Nigeria.
To this the United States has reiterated its commitment to donating more than one billion vaccine doses around the world by early 2022. This includes in African countries primarily through the COVAX initiative.
Also improving equitable distribution remains a priority for the United States so as to prevent the emergence of new variants that threaten populations everywhere.
