ABUJA: Nigeria expects to receive its first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine in January, the country's health minister said on Wednesday, but officials do not yet know which one they will get.Africa's most populous nation has not been as hard-hit by the coronavirus pandemic as others on the continent such as South Africa, but it warned last week of a second wave of COVID-19 infections.Health Minister Osagie Ehanire said that Nigeria has a working group in place to handle vaccines, and is working with the COVAX programme backed by the World Health Organization."We have 200 million citizens.
We need to have a way to be able to get enough to be able to take care of our citizens."Nigeria is in talks with vaccine manufacturers as well as teams in.