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April 7, 2021

Nigeria vaccinates 964,387 persons

Uganda will import five million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines next month after the discovery of new COVID-19 variants in the country, President Yoweri Museveni has said. In a televised address to the nation late Friday, Museveni said the vaccines will be used to vaccinate at least 80 per cent of the 5.5 million elderly. People below 50 years, with underlying medical conditions that are at high risk of contracting the novel coronavirus, will also be vaccinated. Uganda targets to vaccinate more than 21.9 million people who face the highest risk of the infection, including the health workers, teachers, social workers and security personnel, elderly and those with underlying medical conditions. “The government is working hard to ensure we bring another five million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine before the end of May to complete the threshold vaccination and ensure that those vaccinated before getting the second booster dose,’’ said Museveni. “Vaccines are the most effective intervention we have against COVID-19. “The government and partners are working hard to bring vaccines to most adult Ugandans to protect them and to support us to reopen the economy and get back all our children to school.’’ Henry Mwebesa, Director-General of Health Services, last week said Uganda is scheduled to receive some two million more doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines in May through the COVAX facility. Uganda has so far received 964,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines from the COVAX vaccine sharing programme and the Indian government. As of April 16, a total of 220,893 people had been inoculated with the first jab of AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19, according to the Ministry of Health statistics. The country has reported the emergence of the highly transmissible COVID-19 variants which were first reported in Britain, South Africa and Nigeria. The ministry’s data showed that as of April 16, Uganda had registered a cumulative total of 41,340 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 40,898 recoveries and 338 deaths.

Meanwhile, an update released by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA, on Tuesday showed that a total of 964,387 eligible Nigerians have so far been vaccinated with the first dose, representing 48 per cent of the proportion vaccinated.

A breakdown of the NPHCDA update contained in an Electronic Management of Immunisation Data System, further revealed that Lagos is leading in the exercise with 164,434 persons vaccinated.

Three other states trailing Lagos are Kaduna, 54,021; Ogun, 52,462 and Kano, 50,931.

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Other states that have recorded 5-digit figures in the exercise are Katsina, 39,164; FCT, 36,564; Bauchi, 36,015; Oyo, 32,781; Ondo, 31,585; Kwara, 31,114; Jigawa, 27,564; Gombe, 27,130; Niger, 25,784; Edo, 24,131; Plateau, 23,844; Rivers, 22,968; Ekiti, 22, 851; Yobe, 20,878; Osun, 20834; Borno, 19,945; Benue, 19,469; Delta, 18,517; Adamawa, 17,933; Nasarawa, 17,803; Imo, 16,958; Kebbi, 14,530; Zamfara, 14,167; Cross River, 13,695 and Sokoto, 11,329.

In the league of 4-digit are Enugu, 9, 831; Akwa Ibom, 9, 679; Bayelsa, 9,270; Anambra, 9,000; Ebonyi, 7,141; Taraba and Abia recorded 5,487 and 4,578 respectively.

Sadly, Kogi state remains the only state that is yet to vaccinate a single person.

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