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Nigeria receives four million Covax vaccines
ABUJA, March 2, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – A shipment of 3.94 million coronavirus
jabs arrived in Nigeria on Tuesday, making Africa’s most populous nation the
world’s third country to receive vaccines under Covax, a global scheme to
provide free inoculations, an AFP journalist saw.
The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines, manufactured by the Serum Institute of
India, are the first of 16 million doses that Covax plans to deliver over the
coming months to Nigeria, where they will be given first to healthworkers,
the government said.
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