By The Government of India has donated 100,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Nigeria.
According to a statement from the Indian High Commission in Abuja, a consignment of 100,000 doses of Covishield vaccines, manufactured at the Serum Institute of India, was delivered to the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA).
The Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Abhay Thakur, was quoted as saying that the supply of vaccines to Nigeria was in keeping with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s commitment, made at the UNGA in September 2020, that “India’s vaccine production and delivery capacity will be used to help humanity in fighting Covid19.”
Thakur added that these supplies of Made-in-India vaccines to Nigeria is in keeping with India’s longstanding, age-old and time-tested ties with Nigeria, based on close friendship and deep mutual trust.
Recall Nigeria on March 2 received 3.92 million doses of AstraZeneca COVID vaccine under COVAX, a World Health Organization-backed programme, set up to divide about two billion doses of vaccines across 92 low-and middle-income countries.
