Nigeria, on Tuesday, received the first batch of about 4 million doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine under the COVAX initiative and the planned launch of the national vaccination campaign.
The Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr Faisal Shuaib, disclosed this at the second edition of the State House briefing in Abuja on Thursday, which is motivated by Nigeria’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the country’s national vaccination strategy.
Shuaib said,
“Launch of national vaccination campaign will take place at the National Hospital, Abuja, Friday, March 5, 2021, with frontline health workers.
“On Saturday, the plan is to vaccinate Mr President, Mr Vice-President, and strategic leaders, to demonstrate vaccine safety to the public.
“Again, we are hopeful that when Nigerians see leaders like Mr President and Mr Vice-President take the vaccines; it will increase their confidence around the safety of the vaccines.
“As you are well aware that even before the vaccines arrived in Nigeria, there is a lot of hesitancy. It is a global phenomenon. Vaccine hesitancy is similar no matter where you are, you have to provide the right information and to those people who have questions, we cannot dismiss their cynicism.’’
But Nigerians have insisted that they will not participate in the inoculation of AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccines despite the plan for President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo to take it in the public tomorrow.
MY THOUGHTS:
If the vaccine is truely terrible as speculated, do you think Buhari and Osinbajo would wanna take it tomorrow? How about Atiku..he took same COVID-19 vaccine in Dubai some weeks ago and still alive. Anyways, I don’t know what to say..I’m confuse.🤷
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