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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed the first cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant have been detected in 鈥渢hree persons with a history of travel to South Africa鈥�. In response, the government has upped efforts in the fight against Covid-19 but health officials fear it may be too little, too late. So far, with a population of more than 200 million people, Nigeria has administered just over 9.8 million vaccine doses, according to the World Health Organization.

Dr Aniekeme Aniefiok Uwah JP, Director of Public Health Services for the Health Ministry in the southern state of Akwa Ibom says: 鈥淲e don鈥檛 have enough vaccines and the few we have they won鈥檛 take them so it has become very complicated鈥�.

Picture: A health worker in Nigeria prepares a dose of the Covid vaccine. November 2021. Credit. Reuters