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The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire on Saturday said that Nigeria had put all facilities in place to receive the COVID-19 vaccine and might get it by the end of February.
The minister disclosed this while speaking at an inspection tour of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH).
Ehanire said, “We are told that by the end of this month, which is about 10 days from now, we shall get the vaccines.
“We do not produce the vaccines. They are manufactured abroad in about four or five countries.
“The US, UK, Russia and China that have succeeded in producing COVID-19 vaccines have started issuing licences to other countries to reproduce them.
“South Africa has a licence to make the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccines, while Russia only recently gave India the licence to produce AstraZeneca.”
Ehanire further said that some of the vaccine-producing countries decided to attend to their needs first because they had serious challenges with COVID-19.
He noted that while the whole world suffered the ache of the pandemic, about 75 percent of vaccines already produced were being used in 10 countries.
