The Federal Government is lining up 50,000 people, including frontline health workers, the elderly, persons with comorbidity and targeted police and immigration officers as the first set of Nigerians to receive the awaited Covid-19 vaccines.
Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja
Federal Government has said that 50,000 persons would be administered with COVID-19 vaccines in the first phase of the rollout.
National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) said the country is expecting to take delivery of 100,000 doses of vaccines by the end of this month.
The agency said the federal government had put in place a technical working group for COVID-19 vaccine headed by the Executive Director of the NPHCDA, Dr. Faisal Shuaib that would coordinate the implementation of the COVID-19 vaccination in the country.
The technical group is made up of all relevant ministries, parastatals and partners.
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The Minister of State for Health, Olorunnimbe Mamora, has warned Nigerians against complacency in containing the COVID-19 pandemic as vaccines may not arrive the country as soon as expected.
He made this known while speaking at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 briefing on Thursday.
Represented by the Director, Hospital Services, Federal Ministry of Health, Adebimpe Adebiyi, he said the government is working hard to get the approved vaccines to fight the virus.
“We are working very hard to get vaccines for our people. It may not come soon enough, therefore we need to be alive to get the vaccines when they come,” he said.
COVID-19: Nigeria records 749 new infections, three more deaths
Nigeria has now recorded 1,267 deaths from the virus.
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On Tuesday, Nigeria recorded 749 new COVID-19 infections and three deaths across 19 of the country’s 36 states.
While the 749 new cases indicated a sharp increase from the 397 infections recorded on Monday, the three new deaths were lower than the seven in the previous 24 hours.
The country has now recorded 1,267 deaths from the virus, according to the country’s infectious disease outfit,
In the past 11 days, there have been 55 recorded deaths from the coronavirus.
The NCDC in an update on its microsite Sunday night said the 749 new cases took the total figure in the country to 85,560.
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