COVID-19: France Donates 501,600 Doses Of AstraZeneca Vaccine To Nigeria

The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has received 501,600 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines from the COVAX facility in Nigeria as a gift from the

French government has donated 501,600 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines to Nigeria.

Receiving the vaccines  in Abuja, the Executive Director ,National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA),Dr. Faisal Shuaib, noted that Nigeria was one of the first African countries to get vaccines from the French government.

He added that AstraZeneca’s donation of almost half a million medicines to Nigeria demonstrates France’s faith in Nigeria’s potential to be a proactive and forward-thinking partner in the global fight to end the COVID-19 epidemic.

He stated that the federal government had put in place the essential safeguards to ensure vaccine monitoring and accountability.

According to him; “We track utilization of all COVID-19 vaccines in all the states of the Federation and receive daily report from our Senior Supervisors and State Immunization officers who are on the field to monitor the management and administration of the vaccines“.

Speaking,the French Ambassador to Nigeria, Ambassador Jerome Pasquier, commended the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in addressing the pandemic through procurement of vaccines and getting them across the country.

He said that he was happy that the French government was donating over half a million doses of the vaccine and encouraged Nigerians yet to take the vaccine to do so.

“After 3 years in Nigeria, today happens to be my final assignment in Nigeria as i leave the country for France tomorrow, to begin my next assignment,” he disclosed.

The ambassador noted that the French board was fully opened to Nigerians that were vaccinated.