{"id":254541,"date":"2020-09-04T17:28:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T16:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=254541"},"modified":"2020-09-04T17:29:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T16:29:05","slug":"breaking-nigeria-receives-russias-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=254541","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Nigeria receives Russia&#8217;s COVID-19 Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-1454525\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\" wp_automatic_readability=\"49.4438138479\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1385691 size-full jetpack-lazy-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/04\/COVID-VACCINE-e1597149441309.gif?resize=634%2C377&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Africa should support COVID-19 vaccine trials, provide scientific leadership\" width=\"634\" height=\"377\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/04\/COVID-VACCINE-e1597149441309.gif?resize=634%2C377&amp;is-pending-load=1#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" animated-media=\"animated-media\"><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government on Friday received samples of Russia\u2019s COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Ambassador to Nigeria, Alexey Shebarshin, delivered the samples to the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, during a visit to the ministry in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Others present during the visit were the Minister of State for Health, Olorunnimbe Mamora; top management of the Health Ministry and other Nigerian Scientists.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement signed by the ministry\u2019s Director of Information, Media, and Public Relations, Olujimi Oyetomi.<\/p>\n<p>The statement was titled, \u2018Russian Federation Ambassador to Nigeria, H.E. Alexey L. Shebarshin on a courtesy visit to Nigeria\u2019s Health Ministers, Russian-made COVID-19 Vaccine finally here.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government on Friday received samples of Russia\u2019s COVID-19 vaccine. Russia\u2019s Ambassador to Nigeria, Alexey Shebarshin, delivered the samples to the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, during a visit to the ministry in Abuja. Others present during the visit were the Minister of State for Health, Olorunnimbe Mamora; top management of the Health Ministry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14571,3],"tags":[14173,4805,10838],"class_list":["post-254541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-russia","tag-vladimir-putin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/254542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}