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The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo will on Saturday be vaccinated against the deadly coronavirus.
The Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr Faisal Shuaib, who disclosed this during the second edition of State House weekly briefing held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, said Nigeria would begin to administer the COVID-19 vaccine to its citizens on Friday after a launch that would take place at the National Hospital, Abuja.
Shuaib said this as the Cross River State Commissioner for Health, Dr Betta Edu, in an SMS sent to one of our correspondents in Calabar on Thursday evening, disclosed that the Federal Government would on Monday in Abuja distribute the vaccine to states.
Scientists have taken all precautions
Prime Minister Modi sought to dispel concerns expressed by some opposition leaders and experts over the approval given to Covaxin without the availability of efficacy data and asserted that scientists have taken all precautions to provide citizens with effective vaccines.
The Prime Minister said he has been maintaining from the beginning that the scientific community will have the final word on the issue.
Four more vaccines in the pipeline
Besides the two vaccines four others are in the pipeline, PM Modi said, asserting that India s fight against the pandemic will enter a decisive stage with the vaccination roll-out.
# Each district will receive the dummy vaccine for 100 beneficiaries from the nearest depot;
# Temperature will be tracked through the vaccine’s journey from the depot to the vaccination site;
# An SMS will be sent in advance to the beneficiaries with the name of the vaccinator, and the time of the vaccination;
# Each beneficiary will be made to sit for 30 minutes after being administered the shot; if an adverse event occurs, its management will be tracked through the central server.
“A total 2,360 participants have been put through the national-level training of trainers, which includes cold chain and immunisation officers. Since people have already been trained, we want to know before the actual rollout [of the vaccination programme] how effective this training has been. We have chosen one state each from the north, south, east and west, and the states will decide the two districts. The dry run will be monitored by the Centre,” a senior government official who is part of