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• Federal Govt, states’ officials meet next week, plan how coronavirus cash will be spent
The Federal Government is set to release N36bn to states as part of measures to curb the rising COVID-19 cases and prevent the third wave of the virus.
The Benue State Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Joseph Ngbea, who disclosed this in an interview with one of our correspondents on Wednesday, stated that the Federal Government promised to release the fund before the end of this month.
Ngbea also indicated that state commissioners of health would meet next week with the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 and the Federal Ministry of Health officials.
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The Kano State Primary Health Care Management Board says it has destroyed some expired products worth N90 million at various markets in the state. This was contained in a statement by the board’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Maikudi Marafa, on Monday. It said the Executive Secretary of the Board, Dr Tijjani Husain, represented by the […]
Ekiti, Bauchi, Kano deploy 1,500 teams to administer COVID-19 vaccine
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Published 14 March 2021
About 1,500 teams of health workers will be deployed by Ekiti, Bauchi and Kano state governments in different parts of the states to administer doses of COVID-19 vaccine jabs,
Sunday PUNCH has learnt.
Our correspondents gathered that 78 teams would be moblised in Ekiti, 872 in Bauchi while a team of health workers would be deployed across each of the 509 designated centres in Kano.
The Executive Chairman, Bauchi State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Rilwan Mohammed, said the state Governor, Bala Mohammed, had directed that the administration of the AstraZeneca vaccine be commenced immediately.