By The Kogi State government is finally set to begin the administration of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine to its residents.
In a telephone interview with TheCable, the State Commissioner for Health, Saka Haruna confirmed the development, saying the state will receive doses of the vaccine Tuesday.
Haruna said: “Everything” is set for the state to start the vaccination rollout.
“We have done the micro-planning and everything has been completed with the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA).
“Anybody that is willing to receive the vaccine (will receive it); nobody is exempted. And nobody will be forced to receive the vaccine.”
Kogi is the only state yet to begin administering the vaccine to residents, three weeks after the country began its rollout, The Nation reported.
The state governor, Yahaya Bello, is one of the coronavirus skeptics in the country. He had, on a number of occasions, denied the existence of COVID-19 in Kogi, stressing that vaccination was the least of the state’s concerns.
“COVID-19 is just a minute aspect of what we’re treating in Kogi State. I’m not going to subject the people of Kogi State to vaccination, or I will not make them guinea pigs,” Bello said.
