{"id":36612,"date":"2021-02-06T14:29:30","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T14:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=36612"},"modified":"2021-02-06T12:38:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T12:38:42","slug":"covid-19-who-excludes-nigeria-from-african-countries-to-get-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-who-excludes-nigeria-from-african-countries-to-get-vaccine","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: WHO excludes Nigeria from African countries to get vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The World Health Organisation (WHO) has not shortlisted Nigeria for the Pfizer vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>This is because of the country\u2019s failure to meet the standard requirement of being able to store the vaccines at the required -70 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian government had said it is expecting to receive 100,000 doses through the COVAX initiative.<\/p>\n<p>However, speaking at a virtual press conference, the Director, WHO, African Region, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, disclosed that just four African countries were shortlisted out of the 13 that applied.<\/p>\n<p>They are Tunisia, Cape Verde, South Africa and Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>Moeti said, \u201cAround 320,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine have been allocated to four African countries \u2013 Cape Verde, Rwanda, South Africa and Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis vaccine has received WHO Emergency Use Listing but requires countries to be able to store and distribute doses at minus 70 degrees Celsius.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She called on countries to \u201cfine-tune their plans for COVID-19 immunization campaigns.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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