This was disclosed on Tuesday by Lagos State Governor, Mr.
Babajide Sanwo-Olu while speaking at the 2021 International Women’s Day celebration
organised by the Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation held at
Police College, Ikeja.
Sanwo-Olu disclosed that the State Government received the
vaccines at 4am on Tuesday, noting that the vaccines had been kept in a safe
place.
He assured that the state government will soon commence the
vaccination in line with the scheduled guidelines by the National Primary
Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA).
Sanwo-Olu implored the residents of the Nigeria’s most
populous state and epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic since its outbreak in the
country on February 27 to continue to keep to all the COVID-19 protocols like
wearing of facemasks, washing and sanitising their hands and observing social
distance.
Recall that Nigeria took delivery of about 3.924 million
doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines, on March 2, as part of an
overall 16 million doses that would be delivered to the country in batches over
the next few months.
The vaccines were provided by COVAX, in an unprecedented
global effort to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines.
President Muhammadu Buhari and his vice, Yemi Osinbajo on
Saturday, March 6, received jabs of the COVID-19 vaccines at the State House,
Abuja, and since then other eminent Nigerians have also received it.
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