Executive Director of NPHCDA, Dr. Faisal Shuaib
46.3m eligible Nigerians not vaccinated – NPHCDA, administers 93.5m Covid-19 vaccine doses in 2yrs
National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has disclosed that 93.5 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccines were administered on 65.5 million eligible Nigerians from March 2021 to date.
Briefing newsmen, Sunday, in Abuja, Executive Director of NPHCDA, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, explained that the figure is based on the 2022 population estimates, indicating that only 46.3 million eligible Nigerians have not taken any of the COVID-19 vaccines.
Shuaib further disclosed that Adamawa state has now joined the list of 12 other states which have fully vaccinated over 50 percent of their eligible population with the COVID-19 vaccines, adding that the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccines, introduced in February 2022, account for 60 percent of the current full vaccination coverage across the country.
He stated that the top five performing states on the COVID-19 mass vaccination campaign in the country are Nasarawa, Jigawa, Osun, Kaduna and Kano.
According to Shuaib, Osun, Kaduna, Kebbi and Sokoto states have fully vaccinated at least half of their eligible population in the preceding 100 days of SCALES 3.0 implementation.
“The top three performing states in the last 100 days of SCALES 3.0 are Kaduna, Kano and Osun, with total vaccinations of 3.3, 2.8 and 2.5 million respectively,” he explained.
The NPHCDA Executive Director appealed the 46.3 million Nigerians yet to be vaccinated to take advantage of the ongoing Integrated Vaccination Campaign to get vaccinated against COVID-19 saying that they can visit the nearest vaccination site.
Shuaib said that the COVID-19 vaccine is free to all eligible Nigerians at all designated sites across the country, including the FCT.
“Vaccination cards are also at no cost and are freely given to only those vaccinated at these sites.”
