President Muhammadu Buhari has taken the second dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at the State House, Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the president’s personal physician, Suhayb Rafidadi, administered the vaccine to the president at his official residence, State House, Abuja on Saturday.
Mr Buhari had received the first jab of the vaccination on March 6 where he was presented with his COVID-19 vaccination card by officials of the Federal Ministry of Health, who supervised the exercise.
The president is the ECOWAS Champion on the Fight against COVID-19.
Meanwhile, the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) had disclosed that 1,945, 273 eligible Nigerians had so far taken the first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
It also said that 22,162 of Nigerians vaccinated with the first dose had also taken the second dose.
NAN reports that Nigeria has so far received over 3.92 million doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines delivered under the international Covax scheme.
NAN
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