COVID-19: FG Begins Office-toOffice Vaccination for Dec Deadline

Ahead of tomorrow’s deadline set for all civil servants to show proof of vaccination accessing their offices, the federal government, has commenced an office-to-office vaccination exercisein federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).

This is as the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) said some 6,504,043 eligible persons had received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in Nigeria as at yesterday, Monday, November 29, 2021.

Government also claimed that some 3,586,812 persons had been fully vaccinated with over 30 million doses of the vaccines at hand, while another 60 million doses would arrive before the first quarter of 2022.

It, however, said no one had died as a result of taking COVID-19 vaccine.

Executive Director of the NPHCDA, Dr Faisal Shuaib, who spoke at the media briefing of the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 in Abuja, said as part of efforts to ease access to COVID-19 vaccines by government employees, the NPHCDA has also commenced office-to-office vaccination.

"I would like to remind all federal government employees that starting from December 1st, 2021, they would be required to show evidence of being vaccinated against COVID-19, or a negative PCR result done within 72 hours before being allowed into their offices.

"To further ease access to COVID-19 vaccines by government employees, we have also commenced office-to-office vaccination in Federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).

"What this simply means is that employees, who are yet to be vaccinated will find a vaccination site around their offices to register and get vaccinated. This will help in preventing the excuse of having to leave their place of employment to a distant vaccination site," he said.