The Chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19, BOSS MUSTAPHA, has expressed worry over the inability of government to get more vaccines.
He said with this development only two million Nigerians would be fully vaccinated.
MUSTAPHA said the initial plan of the government was to vaccinate 40 per cent of the population in 2021 and the remaining 30 percent in 2022.
While receiving the British Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria, GILL ATKINSON, in Abuja, he said for now one per cent of the estimated population would be fully vaccinated when the exercise was completed.
MUSTAPHA stated that with that percentage, Nigeria was far from achieving herd immunity, saying that Nigeria is a danger zone and mass community transmission of the lethal virus looms in the country.
He called on the United Kingdom and other developed countries to assist with vaccines as soon as possible so as to be able to vaccinate more Nigerians and prevent the third wave of the virus in the country.
