The governors of Nigeria’s 36 states have agreed to take the COVID-19 vaccine on live television to help drive acceptance among the populace.
The Chairman of the Nigeria’s Governors’ Forum, Dr Kayode Fayemi, made this known on Friday in Abuja when he fielded questions from State House Correspondents at the end of a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari.
“We too will like to demonstrate to our citizens that we believe that vaccines will work.
“The Governors’ Forum managed the polio vaccines administration in the country and we have garnered a lot of experience.
“We have worked with the Primary Healthcare Development Agency and the Federal Ministry of Health.
“We will be happy to work with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), the Presidential Task Force (PTF) and the Primary Healthcare Development Agency on this as well.
“So, we would take a lead as well in our various states,” said Fayemi, who is also the Governor of Ekiti.Faisal Shuaib, the Executive Director of National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), at the PTF briefing on COVID-19 on Thursday in Abuja, said the President , Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and other prominent Nigerians had expressed readiness to receive the vaccine on live television.
Nigeria intends to get 42 million COVID-19 vaccines to cover one-fifth of its population through the global COVAX scheme.
The initial vaccines would come as part of Nigeria’s plan to inoculate 40 per cent of the population in 2021 and another 30 per cent in 2022 with 100,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine expected to arrive in the country by the end of January 2021.
Fayemi commended the PTF on COVID-19 for resolving to use the president and the vice president as the publicity vehicles for reassuring those who might have doubts about the vaccines.
“But the good thing is that Mr President has agreed with me that he would convey to the PTF the necessity of using other influencers.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has confirmed 473 new cases of Coronaviruses cases in Nigeria, bringing total number of infections in the country to 177,615.
165,472 have been discharged, while 2,185 deaths have been recorded.
For Saturday’s figure, Lagos state continues to lead others with 323 cases.
Other new infections are as follows;
Akwa Ibom-46
Rivers-41
FCT-20
Ekiti-12
Osun-9
Oyo-9
Ogun-6
Bayelsa-3
Anambra-1
Edo-1
Nasarawa-1
Plateau-1
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has confirmed 407 new cases of COVID19 in Nigeria.
The breakdown shows that Lagos has 160, Akwa Ibom -75, and Ondo-51.
Others include Abia-33, Oyo-29, Kaduna-18, Katsina-7, Gombe, and Ogun have 6 each.
Ekiti has 5, Delta-4, FCT-4, Ebonyi-3, Edo, and Niger have 2 each, while Bayelsa and Nasarawa have 1 each.
So far, Nigeria has had 174,315 confirmed cases, with 165,005 discharged and 2,149 deaths.
Today’s report includes 0 cases reported from Kano, Osun, Plateau, Rivers, and Sokoto States.
New infections have remained high in recent weeks after the figures became negligible in the last months before the deadly Delta variant was detected in the country.
As usual, Lagos had the largest figure 211. It is followed by Akwa Ibom with 80. Other new infections are as follows:
Kwara-73
Osun-29
Oyo-17
Rivers-17
Cross River-15
Edo-14
Anambra-9
Ogun-8
Ekiti-6
Bayelsa-4
FCT-4
Plateau-4
Bauchi-2
Nasarawa-2
Kaduna-1
Jigawa-1
This is now 173,908 total confirmed cases in Nigeria with164,994 discharged and 2,149 deaths.
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