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Lagos Engages 135 Private Health Facilities for COVID Vaccine Administration

No fewer than 135 private health facilities have been enrolled into the Lagos State Government’s mass vaccination strategy programme targeted at vaccinating four million residents by December 2021. This brings to 360, the number of public and private vaccination sites in Lagos. The State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, disclosed this at a news…

Over 127,000 Persons Get COVID-19 Vaccine Jabs In Lagos

The Lagos state government has revealed that a total number of 127,885 Lagosians have taken the COVID -19 vaccine, 10 days after the exercise began. Commissioner for Health Prof. Akin Abayomi, who broke the news on Sunday, after he received reports of Day 10 of the exercise from the State Primary Health Care Board, said…

E-Registration Mandatory To Getting Covid-19 Vaccine In Lagos State – Prof. Abayomi

Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has stressed the need for citizens, who fit into Phase One of the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination exercise, to register on the dedicated self-registration portal before visiting anyone of the 88 designated sites, noting that e-registration is now a mandatory protocol in the vaccination process in Lagos State.…

FG Assures Nigerians of Astrazeneca Vaccine Safety

The Federal Government has assured its citizens that there is no cause for fear regarding the batch of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine delivered to the country recently. The government insists that Nigeria did not receive any dose from the batch of vaccines in contention, adding that all side effects reported so far in Nigeria had been mild.…

Ogun takes delivery of 100,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses

Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun on Monday took delivery of 50,000 doses of AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine donated to the state by the Federal Government. The governor received the vaccines at the Governor’s office, Oke Mosan, Abeokuta, shortly after the arrival of the state team led by Commissioner of Health, Dr Tomi Coker. Abiodun told newsmen…