Akwa Ibom is driving Nigeria’s latest COVID-19 surge as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirms 517 additional infections between August 6 and 11.
The donation also positions Spain as the seventh-largest donor of vaccines globally, with 70 million doses delivered so far.
With the 17 million doses earlier sent by other EU member states, the new vaccines brings the number of doses gifted Nigeria by the EU to 20 million.
The NPHCDA director said the agency would meet with the “other commissioners and executive secretaries of the 26 states plus the FCT.”
The federal government on Wednesday destroyed over one million doses of expired AstraZeneca vaccines in Abuja.
A dose of COVID-19 booster gives greater protection against the virus, the government said.
The PSC boss had said civil servants who refused vaccination would have to present negative PCR tests every 72 hours.
As of November 26, a total of 6,242,224 eligible persons in the country had received their first doses of the vaccine.
The Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19 says efforts are ongoing to give Nigerians booster vaccine doses.
Mr Shuaib appealed to persons 18 years and above and unvaccinated to simply walk into the nearest vaccination site to take their COVID-19 vaccine.
