The vaccine is produced by the Serum Institute of India, under licence from Novavax, and will now be part of the COVAX facility portfolio.
The governor appealed to the unvaccinated in the state to get vaccinated and stop the rate of COVID-19 infection from rising.
“The president graciously approved that we pay back some funds, some wages, which we did not pay health workers,” explained Mr Ngige.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says Lagos topped the COVID-19 chart with 599 new cases out of the 1,051 cases recorded in Nigeria on Thursday.
A pregnant woman in Nasarawa was the first casualty of the epidemic. Medical doctors who managed her case have also been infected.
The concern over the Omicron coronavirus variant has led some countries, Nigeria inclusive, to expand their booster programmes.
The Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday declared the country ebola free, after clearing out the 13th outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease in the country.
Lagos state topped the chart with 796, followed by Delta with 152 and the FCT with 130.
“Over 300 patients are in Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Uselu while 700 are at Urora.”
The grant was the bank’s largest COVID-19-related healthcare investment support in sub-Saharan Africa.
