Category: Diet & Health

They warned that should the Government fail to honour its agreement in the next four weeks, they would be forced to declare another indefinite nationwide industrial action.

The state Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, revealed the list during a press conference in Lagos on Tuesday.

He said: “It has been three days since I got the AstraZeneca vaccine. I can confirm to you that I felt no after effects. I didn’t have headache or restlessness.

According to him, CACOVID had offered to take up the responsibility of the logistics distribution by providing an aircraft to move vaccines from Abuja to States with airports, as well as vans for further dispatch from airports to areas without airports.

Speaking on a Channels Television programme, Bello insists that he would neither take any vaccine nor compel any one in the State to take it.

Almost four million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were shipped via the COVAX Facility, a partnership between CEPI, Gavi, UNICEF and WHO.

They are expected to receive the first dose of the vaccine on Saturday, March 6.

The Director-General of NAFDAC, Dr. Mojisola Adeyeye made the announcement during a live briefing on Thursday.

He said the PTF was also enhancing surveillance at points of entry to respond to the recent outbreak of Ebola in neighbouring countries, especially Guinea and Congo.