Kaduna State government said on Friday that it vaccinated more than five million persons against COVID-19, representing 103 per cent fully vaccinated target coverage of 4.9 million persons.
Mr Ibrahim Adamu, Deputy State Immunisation Officer, State
Primary Healthcare Board made this known in Kaduna on the side-line of a
novelty football match to sensitize youths on sexual and reproductive health.
Adamu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that about 3.2
million of the vaccinated persons are female.
He said Kaduna State ranked 4th in the national ranking of
states with a fully vaccinated population.
He said efforts were ongoing to mobilise those who had not
collected their second doses of the vaccine to do so to get fully vaccinated.
“We are working with our social mobilisation working group
in the state to ensure that every citizen that is supposed to be vaccinated is
fully vaccinated.
“As of last week, we had a shortage of vaccines in some
local government areas, but right now we have received almost 5,000 doses of
Johnson and Johnson’s vaccines being distributed to all the areas,’’ he said.
NAN reports that the novelty match was organised by the
United Nations Population Fund and the Kaduna State Primary Healthcare Board in
collaboration with the Kaduna State AIDS Control Agency and an NGO, the Youth
Ambassadors.
Dr Audu Alayande, Assistant Representative, Reproductive
Health, UNFPA Kaduna, said that the event was organised to sensitise youths on
sexual and reproductive health, HIV, family planning, and COVID-19.
“It is also to equip the youth with critical information and
knowledge on how to protect themselves against HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, unwanted
pregnancies, and unplanned marriages,’’ he said.