Only 3% of Nigerians vaccinated against Covid-19 – Lai Mohammed

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said barely three per cent of Nigeria’s population have been vaccinated against COVID-19 largely due to poor access to the vaccine by developing countries.

Speaking on Sunday, December 5, in Madrid, Spain at the 24th General Assembly of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), the Minister warned that lack of vaccination by developing countries would provide a fertile ground for the virus to mutate and thus threaten the progress already recorded in developed countries. He noted that most European countries bought doses five times the size or their population depriving the poor countries.

“Even before the clinical trials were completed, millions of doses of the most promising vaccines have been bought by Britain, U S, Japan and the European bloc countries. Some of these countries bought doses five times the size of their population. There are fears that these unilateral deals will deprive the poorest countries of access to these life-saving commodities,” he said.