Nigeria receives 2m doses of J&J Covid vaccine from EU countries

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Nigeria has received two million doses of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine from Finland, Greece and Slovenia, with more EU donations set to arrive in the coming weeks, government officials said.

The delivery is part of a donation pledge by the European Union to African countries via the Covax initiative launched by the World Health Organisation in 2020 to distribute vaccines to some of the world's poorest people.

Samuel Isopi, Nigeria's ambassador to the European Union, said more doses would arrive in the coming weeks.

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