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State governments, except Lagos and Oyo, are not making independent plans to procure COVID-19 vaccine, officials told
The PUNCH on Sunday.
Officials of states including Plateau, Delta, Ekiti, Gombe, Cross River and Bauchi, in separate interviews with
The PUNCH, said they had not made any plan to buy the vaccine, rather they would depend on allocations from the Federal Government.
But Lagos and Oyo states, had two weeks ago, told our correspondents that they were making independent plans to buy doses of COVID-19 vaccine, in addition to the allocations expected from the Federal Government.
As most states failed to make their own plans for the vaccine, the Federal Government on Sunday blamed politics and logistics due to no fault of Nigeria for the delay in the arrival of the vaccine in country.