A statement issued yesterday by the British High Commission in Abuja said the vaccines were unveiled at a cold storage unit near the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport.
The Acting British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Gill Atkinson, joined the Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr Faisal Shuaib, and the World Health Organisation Country Representative to Nigeria, Dr. Walter Kazadi Mulombo for the unveiling, alongside other dignitaries.
This includes the 119, 200 doses sent to Zambia and the 51,840 sent to Democratic Republic of the Congo on 13 August, the 119,040 doses sent to Malawi on 14 August, the 140,160 doses sent to Senegal on 15 August, the 299,680 doses sent to Egypt on 16 August, and the 299,520 doses that will be delivered to Uganda on 18 August.
In Nigeria, the UK has restructured its health and human development programming to support the country’s response and continues to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak across all nine pillars of the government’s incident action plans, through the UK Health Security agency, formerly the Public Health England and FCDO’s Lafiya health programme in selected states, as well as direct technical engagement at federal level.
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