Buhari, Osinbajo to receive Covid-19 vaccine publicly

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President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will pick dates on which they will be vaccinated publicly, with the first batch of Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.

About four million doses of the vaccine are expected to arrive in Nigeria on Tuesday.

The Executive Director,  National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr Faisal Shuaib, disclosed this at the Presidential Taskforce on Covid-19 briefing on Monday in Abuja.

Shuaib said that the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and chairman of the PTF on Covid-19, Mr Boss Mustapha, would liaise with other key strategic persons to fix the date for the public vaccination aimed at protecting Nigerians against the Covid-19 pandemic.