The vaccination exercise was earlier scheduled to commence on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the cancellation of the vaccination schedule is coming amidst the rising cases of the pandemic with fatality figures also rising by the day.As of Saturday, Nigeria has recorded 177,615 coronavirus cases and 2,185 fatalities, data from theAlthough the country commenced inoculation of its citizens against COVID-19 in early March, only 3,938,945 eligible persons across 36 states and FCT have so far been vaccinated.
Out of the figure, 2,534,205 people have been vaccinated for the first dose and 1,404,205 have received their second dose of the vaccine. The Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine with which Nigeria commenced vaccination, is given in double doses. A person is required to come back for a second shot, some weeks after taking the first jab.
However, following the exhaustion of approximately four million doses of vaccines delivered through the COVAX facility, the government announced the close of vaccination of the first batch.
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