Nigeria received four million doses of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine from the United States on Sunday as the West African nation steps up
The doses, which came on two planes, were received by officials from the UN children agency UNICEF on behalf of Nigeria at the airport in the capital Abuja, an AFP video reporter at the scene said.It was the second batch of vaccines to arrive in Africa's most populous nation after four million doses were delivered in March under the Covax scheme.
Nigeria -- home to some 210 million people -- used the four million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine it received in March to start its nationwide inoculation programme.Experts worry that the highly contagious Delta variant could pose another setback to vaccine distribution -- if wealthier countries begin requiring booster shots for fully vaccinated people, it could slow shipments of urgently needed doses to developing nations.
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