Buhari, Osinbajo To Be Vaccinated Publicly
President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo will receive the COVID-19 vaccine publicly on Saturday. Faisal Shuaib, executive director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), disclosed this at a media briefing at the state house on Thursday.
He said the number one and two citizens will receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine after some frontline health workers are vaccinated on Friday.
Also scheduled to join him in receiving the vaccines is the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on the COVID-19 pandemic, Mr. Boss Mustapha.
Speaking on the planned roll out of the vaccines, the Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Faisal Shuaib said the President and the other senior administration officials would publicly take vaccines to increase public confidence in it and overcome vaccine hesitancy.
This is even as the Director-General, of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control( NCDC), Dr Chikwe Iheakwazu, has warned that as much as vaccines provide some very important light, the response of testing, surveillance, protecting health workers, investing in national health security and driving risk communications, has to continue.
