–Nigeria require about N2.44tn to vaccinate people who will not have free vaccines
–Only Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Oxford and Novavax vaccines available globally
–Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine costs $19.5 per dose ($39 per two doses)

Nigeria require about N2.44tn for the vaccination of 164.8 million people, who will not have access to free vaccines the country is expecting from the international community.

Presently, coronavirus vaccines obtainable worldwide include those discovered by Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Oxford and Novavax.

The Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Faisal Shuaib, at a press conference of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja on Tuesday, said 100,000 doses of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine would be received by the country at the end of this month.

He also said Nigeria would secure free delivery of 42 million doses of vaccines, which would be a combination of all the available and approved vaccines currently in the market.

According to him, the 42 million doses of the vaccines will only cover 20 per cent of the country’s population, which the National Population Commission, recently put at 206 million.

Shuaib added that the NPHCDA, the PTF and the Federal Ministry of Health were working on financial requirements for procuring more vaccines.

He, however, said the country needed to cover only 70 per cent of its population with vaccination to battle the virus.

But based on his statement that the 42 million doses of vaccines, which Nigeria would get free of charge, would cover 20 per cent of Nigeria’s population, it means 41.2 million Nigerians would vaccinated against COVID-19, leaving 164.8 million others unprotected.

Although there are various vaccines, Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine costs $19.5 per dose ( $39 per two doses).

The United States’ Food and Drug Administration Agency had last month said Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is administered as a two-dose series, three weeks apart.

Based on the two-dose requirement for each of the 164.8 million Nigerians, it means the country will need $6.43bn or N2.44tn (using CBN official exchange rate of N379/$1) to procure the vaccine for them.

A professor of virologist, Oyewale Tomori, in an interview with The PUNCH on Wednesday, gave the costs of other vaccines

He reveals that, Moderna vaccine is between $10 and $50, Johnson & Johnson, $10 and Oxford, $3 to $4 per dose.

He, however, advised the Federal Government to not procure vaccines that the country lacked the facility to store.

Tomori said procuring a vaccine that would be difficult to store in Nigeria would be like adding to the problem of the pandemic in the country.


https://www.naijablaze.com/federal-govt-needs-over-n2-44tn-to-vaccinate-165-million-nigerians/

What nonsense!

these buhari thieves are not tired of destroying this country. They now want to steal in trillions...no longer billions. What a corrupt sets of human beings.

kind gesture from the super powers.we hope it proves very effective.

Opportunity. Vaccine that's still far from ordinary Nigerian. When it comes to open gate, they have our interest at heart. This National Director of Primary Health care, is he a Doctor, Accountant or Economist? The novelty of your paper is acknowledged Sir!

Mobi47:
these buhari thieves are not tired of destroying this country. They now want to steal in trillions...no longer billions. What a corrupt sets of human beings.

We are suffering from Buharivid-15

E BE THINGS!!!

Correct! From billions to trillions now, we are getting there.. Sombori say say buhari, another person shout Sai baba. The mumu people wen chant this rubbish, are now dumb now..

send dat 39$ to my account ooo. no story