The chairman, Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 (PSC) and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, has said that the
federal government will commence its second round of COVID-19 vaccination with Moderna vaccine on Tuesday, August 10, 2021.
Recall that the United States of America donated about 4,080,000 doses of Moderna vaccine to Nigeria to help fight the surge of COVID-19 third wave. The delivery was the second batch of vaccines to arrive in Nigeria after four million doses were delivered in March under the COVAX vaccine sharing facility.COVAX was set up to ensure the equitable distribution of vaccines, particularly to low-income countries, and has already delivered more than 80 million doses to 129 territories.
Nigeria has since exhausted the four million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine which was used kicking off its nationwide inoculation programme. The Moderna vaccine received on August 1, is mRNA type of vaccine manufactured and developed by Moderna, NIAID.
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