With the recent emergence of new COVID-19 variants such as IHU in France, Deltacron in Cyprus and the Omicron, the Federal Government has again called on Nigerians to avail themselves to be vaccinated in the on-going mass vaccination exercise.
The Executive Director, National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Faisal Shuaib, made the call in Abuja while updating newsmen on compliance level to the Covid 19 Vaccination.
He said over fourteen million eligible persons in Nigeria have so far received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine while over five point two million are fully vaccinated.
He said though, the results not evenly distributed across the states identified Nasarawa, Jigawa, FCT, Ogun and Kwara as top five performing states on COVID-19 vaccine uptake in the country adding that Jigawa and Lagos have each vaccinated about one point five million eligible Nigerians with the first dose.
Mr. Shuaib while noting that childhood vaccines will be available at COVID-19 vaccination sites said the agency integrated the campaign in this phase of mass vaccination to enable them deliver other Primary Health Care services.
Assuring of the safety of the vaccination, the NPHCDA boss said Nigeria till date has not recorded any death arising from COVID-19 vaccination. He further emphasised that the second and booster doses are critical to achieving high protection against the virus especially as it keeps mutating.
