Federal Government is expectING to procure a total of 140 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine within the next two years.
The Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi made this known on Tuesday while delivering an address at the Chatham House Event, London, titled: “The role of Nigeria’s State Governments in recovery: responses to COVID-19 linked challenges”.
Fayemi, who is also the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, in his word said: “We are working with the Federal Government to ensure we have vaccines available in the country. Just last week, the NGF invited experts to brief governors on vaccine procurement and administration. We had a National Economic Council (NEC) meeting, where the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) shared the plans around vaccines procurement.”
“We expect about 80m doses of vaccines would be available in 2021 to cover 40% of the population, while another 60% does is being planned for 2022.”