Plateau Government takes delivery of Covid-19 vaccines

As Plateau State Government takes delivery of 105,600 doses of the Oxford-Astrazeneca Covid-19 vaccines, the state government has declared that health workers that would be saddled with the responsibility of administering the vaccines will undergo one-week training before it is rolled out.

The Secretary to the State Government, Professor Danladi Atu, who disclosed this while receiving the vaccine on behalf of the governor said the vaccines would be kept in a safe place, adding that the state government will soon commence the vaccinations in line with the scheduled guidelines.

Professor Atu disclosed that the vaccine doses will be rolled out in four phases, adding that the  first recipients will be front-line health workers, support staff and strategic leadership, followed by individuals ages 50 years and above. 

According to him, the third phase will cover individuals ages 18 to 49 with relevant medical conditions, while the last group will be the remaining eligible population, which is made up of individuals ages 18 to 49 without relevant medical conditions.

He urged the people of the state to register online and be prepared to be vaccinated whenever it gets to their turn and further implored them to continue to observe all the Covid-19 protocols as a way of fighting the pandemic.

In his address, the State Commissioner of Health, Dr Nimkong Lar, debunked the insinuation doing the round that the Covid-19 vaccine was harmful and also that it would further make people more vulnerable to the deadly disease.

Dr Lar said administering the vaccine on top government officials like Mr President, the Vice President, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, was enough evidence to convince everyone that the vaccine was part of government’s intervention to arrest the pandemic.

“Those behind the insinuations are just mischief-makers who simply want to frustrate government efforts in eradicating the pandemic. One of the reasons it was administered on top government functionaries like the Mr President and others was to convince Nigerians that there’s no harm in it as it is being speculated in some quarters,” he said.

On the storage facilities, the commissioner declared: “We have quite a lot of places where the vaccine can be stored, storage facilities are no problem. The EU Prime centre at the state State Secretariat is there alongside other places.”

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