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The World Health Organisation has suspended Nigeria from the list of recipients for its global COVAX scheme, which provides free coronavirus vaccines to indigent countries.
Nigeria’s health authorities have said the country was yet to make any purchases for coronavirus vaccines, despite a frightening surge in the deadly virus and attendant fatalities.
Russian vaccine already available in the country The Federal Government is planning to have vaccinated 149.9 million Nigerians (about 70 per cent) with two doses of $4 (N2000) for each COVID-19 vaccine by the end of 2022. x It was also gathered that the country may not be able to afford the vaccines by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna because their cost average of $18 per dose would require Nigeria to upgrade her vaccine storage infrastructure from minus 11 to minus 70 degree Celsius. Pfizer and BioNTech have set the initial price at $19.50 a dose, which come...