Edo vaccinates 26,000 persons, to complete first phase before April 2

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EDO State Government has intensified the vaccination of residents across the state’s 18 local government councils, vaccinating 26,072 persons with the Oxford- Astrazeneca vaccine in two weeks of the first phase of the vaccination exercise.

Executive Secretary of the state Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr. Julie Erhabor, disclosed this during the daily meeting of the State COVID19 Taskforce, presided by Governor Godwin Obaseki.

Erhabor noted that the state has vaccinated 26,072 persons cumulatively and 3,355 persons in the last 24 hours, including healthcare and frontline workers.

She said the 26,072 persons who have been vaccinated so far, represent 64.3 per cent of the 40, 540 people targeted for the exercise, maintaining that the state government had intensified efforts to ensure that all eligible members of the public were vaccinated.

Erhabor disclosed that those so far vaccinated include 6, 078 healthcare workers, 7,607 strategic leaders and 12, 387 other frontline workers in the 18 councils of the state.

The state’s COVID- 19 Incident Manager, Dr. Andrew Obi, disclosed in the last 24 hours, the state collected 156 samples and recorded no fresh case, five recoveries, zero death, while 14 active cases are being managed at various isolation and treatment facilities.

He reassured that Edo intensifying efforts to ensure that the state completes the first phase of the exercise before commencement of the National Sports Festival on April 2, 2020. BESIDES, the University of Benin Teaching Hospital ( UBTH), yesterday, said it inoculated 2, 200 members of staff since the institution commenced vaccination last week.