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Nigerian Government Targets 52m Vaccines by Second Quarter 2022

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The federal government has projected that it will receive about 55 million doses of vaccines by April 2022 to ensure that more Nigerians are vaccinated against the dreaded COVID-19.The Chairman Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19, Mr Boss Mustapha assured that with the delivery of doses of AstraZeneca, Moderna, Johnson and Johnson vaccines, in addition to the expected delivery of Pfizer vaccines, there would be enough vaccines to go across the country.Mustapha reiterated that the only way to survive the scourge was to be vaccinated, a fact he said had been reinforced by science and research.He noted that although the global cases recorded have continued to decline to about four million cases weekly, the situation, however, still calls for caution because the country and the world are not out of the woods yet.