It has been estimated by experts that the Federal Government will need over N2.44trillion to vaccinate Nigeria’s 206 million population.

It was revealed that ‘Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine costs $19.5 per dose ($39 per two doses)’. Considering the cost of a two-dose, the Nigeria government will need $6.43bn or N2.44tn, using CBN official exchange rate of N379 per $1 secure enough vaccines.

However, it was stated by the Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), Faisal Shuaib, at a press conference of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja on Tuesday, that Nigeria would receive free delivery of 42 million doses of vaccine by the end of January, in which these doses of vaccine coming will only cover 20 per cent of the country’s population of 206 million, according to National Population Commission.

Shuaib said that the Federal Government and other authorities like NPHCDA, Presidential Task Force (PTF) and the Federal ministry of Health are working on the capital needed to receive more vaccines.

Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Oxford and Novavax are the coronavirus vaccines discovered so far.