Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19, BOSS MUSTAPHA, and the Minister of Health, OSAGIE EHANIRE, may be part of the nation's strategic leaders to be vaccinated first when COVID-19 vaccine arrives in Nigeria later in the month.

The Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, FAISAL SHUAIB, who disclosed this at the PTF briefing in Abuja said they plan to take the vaccine to the public to prove to Nigerians that it is safe.

He said the Federal Government will need about N2.44tn for the vaccination of 164.8 million Nigerians, who will not have access to free vaccines the country is expecting from the international community.

In the meantime, the Chief Medical Director of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Prof. CHRIS BODE, has said the second wave of COVID-19 was ravaging the country and claiming more lives.

BODE, who made the assertion at a news conference in Lagos, said the resurgence of COVID-19, through the newly mutated form, has proven to be very dangerous.

He said unlike what we witnessed in the first wave, this one is even more easily transmitted and deadlier too.

Prof. CHRIS BODE, noted it is imperative for everyone to accept that the COVID-19 pandemic is not over and that we must prepare to confront it all over again.