Buhari, Osinbajo to receive COVID-19 vaccine Saturday

The Federal Government has said states that have not met the criteria for vaccine safety won’t get share of the 3.9 million doses of Astrazeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccines in the country.

Executive director, national primary health care development agency, Dr Faisal Shuaib, disclosed this at a state house briefing in Abuja.

Shuaib said President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo will receive shots of the vaccines on Saturday to dissipate vaccine hesitancy amongst Nigerians.

Shuaib said the plan is to go to the state level to start the launch of the treatment centres of the states and also get strategic leaders such as governors to publicly take the vaccines.

He said a dashboard that will track very carefully the status of the preparedness of each state will be created before vaccines can be released to the states.