Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki has said that he will be the first person to be vaccinated in the state to boost the citizens’ confidence in taking the COVID-19 vaccine.
Obaseki disclosed this on Friday in Benin while addressing journalists on the need for residents not to be scared of the vaccines.
The governor said, “I will take mine and if I take mine and am okay, that will give confidence to Edo people.
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“The preventive protocol will still be in place, don’t forget that it will still take a while to vaccinate almost 80 percent of the population that is expected to be vaccinated.
“The fact that you have taken the vaccine does not mean you should be careless, you should not wear a mask, you should not protect yourself because many more people may have not received their own vaccination.
“So, we will still continue to insist and advocate that our people should conduct themselves and behave to prevent COVID-19 from spreading,” he said.
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The governor, however, assured that he would provide adequate logistics and security at the state medical facilities during the vaccination exercise.
However, President and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, will receive shots of AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccines on Saturday.
Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr Faisal Shuaib, disclosed this at a State House briefing in Abuja on Thursday.
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According to him, the exercise will boost the confidence of Nigerians to receive the about four million doses of AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine shipped into the country this week.
Shuaib said, “The next step in the vaccination programme given that we’ve now received the vaccines is a launch that will be taking place at the National Hospital tomorrow (Friday). The time scheduled for that launch is 10am. The launch will be conducted by the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, (Boss Mustapha).
“The plan is to vaccinate the frontline health workers that work in the treatment centre of the National Hospital, those will be the first people just like we’ve communicated that frontline health workers will be the first people to take the vaccines.
(NAN)
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