The Government of India has donated 100,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Nigeria.
Nigeria has received a consignment of 100,000 doses of Covishield vaccines, donated by the Government of India.
The Indian High Commission in Nigeria disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.
It said the consignment has been delivered to the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA).
The statement quoted the Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Abhay Thakur, 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.”
He 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.
