The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) has disclosed that Nigeria has fully vaccinated a total of 21,236,404 of its eligible population with COVID-19 vaccine.
Executive Director of NPHCDA, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, disclosed this at a ministerial briefing, Tuesday, in Abuja.
He indicated that from available statistics, it was obvious that Nigeria is still far from achieving the set target of vaccinating 70 per cent of its eligible population.
The NPHCDA boss said that more purposeful actions needed to be taken to fast-track the process to achieve herd immunity against COVID-19 infections in the country.
He said: “As at 10:00p.m. on Sunday, June 19, of the 111,776,503 eligible Nigerian residents targeted for the entire vaccination cycle, a total of 21,236,404 people were fully vaccinated with different mix of COVID-19 vaccines, while 28,426,564 people were partially vaccinated indicating 19.05 and 25.4 per cent respectively.”
He added that “the expansion of the vaccination sites to include all the publicly-owned Primary Healthcare Centres (PHC), secondary and tertiary health facilities, public and private corporate bodies, selected private health facilities, including private laboratories, educational institutions as well as military and para-military formations.
” We have also created mass vaccination sites in stadia, shopping malls, markets, religious houses, motor packs and in carefully selected/trained pharmaceutical stores”, he added.
