The Diplomat
The Government of Spain on Tuesday delivered more than four million doses of Johnson & Johnson anti-virus vaccine to Nigeria to help Africa’s most populous country fight the coronavirus pandemic.
At the handover ceremony, held in Abuja, the Spanish ambassador to Nigeria, Juan Ignacio Sell, stressed that this was the largest donation of vaccines -a total of 4.4 million- from Spain to date to an African nation, reports Efe.
For his part, the director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Faisal Shuaib, thanked Spain for the donation.
According to Shuaib, the vaccines came at a time when Nigeria needed them and he called on all citizens to get vaccinated as soon as possible to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
Nigeria has so far recorded about 260,000 cases of coronavirus, of which more than 3,140 have resulted in death. The country has vaccinated just over 8 per cent of its population – some 16.8 million people – against the coronavirus with the full regimen.
Nigeria has already received 2 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine from Finland, Greece and Slovenia, and more are expected from other EU countries.
