August 16 has been set as the new date for the commencement of the second phase of COVID-19 vaccination in the country.
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed in an interview on the Nigerian Television Authority’s (NTA) ‘Good Morning Nigeria’’ programme, said the moderna vaccines donated by the United States of America (USA) will be administered.
He said “We have received 4,80,000 doses of the moderna vaccine and we will commence administering the doses on Monday, August 16. The exercise was supposed to commence tomorrow August 10, but we suspended it till Monday, and the reason is purely administrative. You see, when vaccines arrive in the country, they are taken to National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). The agency which will analyse them and thereafter give us a green light for the use.”