Nigeria will begin administering the second batch of COVID-19 vaccines from August 10, the presidential steering committee (PSC) on COVID-19 said on Saturday.
Spokesperson of PSC, Willie Bassey, disclosed this in a statement issued in Abuja.
“The PSC has received over four million doses of Moderna vaccine donated by the U.S. Government to Nigeria,” he said.
“In view of the above, the inoculation is scheduled from Tuesday, Aug. 10, at the Federal Medical Centre, Jabi, off Airport road, Abuja.”
Bassey said the commencement of the second batch vaccination is pertinent as the country battles the third wave of the pandemic.
The federal government on August 1 received 4.08m doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from the United States.
It is the second batch of vaccines received by Nigeria after the country had run out of the initial four million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine received from the COVAX facility.
