JUST IN: First batch of COVID-19 vaccines, AstraZeneca arrive Nigeria

Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines, AstraZeneca-Oxford have arrived Nigeria.

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The vaccines arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja around noon on Tuesday, on board an Emirates airline.

At the airport to receive the vaccines were the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 and Secretary-General to the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha.

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Also present were the Minister for Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, the Director-General, National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA, Dr Faisal Shuaib, and the Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Diseases Control, NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu among others.

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