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General News of Wednesday, 7 April 2021

Source: www.mynigeria.com

963,802 vaccinated in Nigeria, after one month - SGF

Presidential Task Force on coronavirus, Boss Mustapha Presidential Task Force on coronavirus, Boss Mustapha

After one month since the exercise commenced, more than 960,000 persons in Nigeria have received the first batch of Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines according to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha.

He said the main objective was to ensure at least 70% of Nigerians got the vaccine between 2021 and 2022.

“As at April 5, 2021, 963,802 persons in Nigeria had received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. The overarching objective is to vaccinate 70% of Nigeria’s population between 2021 and 2022”, he said.

The SGF, however, lamented that the global hope offered by the arrival of vaccines has been threatened by the detection of variants of concern as described by the WHO (B.1.1.7; B.1.351; P.1).

He said these variants are associated with an increase in the spread of the virus (transmissibility) and account for the third wave of infections currently occurring in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and a host of other countries.

According to him, there is some evidence that existing vaccines are less effective against the variants.