Nigeria, June 15 -- Nigerian government has revealed that it is expecting to receive additional 3.92 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines through the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Assess Facility (COVAX).

The Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Faisal Shuaib, disclosed this during a media briefing in Abuja on Tuesday.

Mr Shuaib said the doses of vaccines are expected in the country latest by August, 2021.

"We now have information that Nigeria will get 3.92m doses of Oxford/Astrazeneca by the end of July or early August," he said.

Nigeria had commenced COVID-19 vaccination on March 5, 2021, having received approximately four million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines from C...