Nigeria expects to receive nearly 8 million additional doses of Covid-19 vaccines by the end of August, including from a US government donation, Reuters quoted its head of its primary care agency as saying on Tuesday.

Faisal Shuaib, head of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), said Nigeria exhausted its initial supply of nearly 4 million shots last week and aims to resume vaccinations within weeks, when the new doses arrive.

Nigeria expects delivery of 3.924 million doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca shots from global vaccine-sharing scheme COVAX by the end of July or early August, Shuaib said, and an additional 3.93 million doses of either Pfizer/Biotech or Moderna, donated by the US government via COVAX, in August.

The White House last month outlined a plan to share 55 million US Covid-19 vaccine doses globally via COVAX.