COVID-19 Vaccination: As LASG Sets To Achieve Herd Immunity By May 2023 Feature
This is even as the state government has intensified efforts to vaccinate up to 80 per cent of its populace, by May 2023, thereby achieving herd immunity.
Globally, as of 7 March 2023, there have been 759,408,703 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,866,434 deaths. In Nigeria, from 3rd January 2020 to 7 March 2023, there have been 266,593 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 3,155 deaths. More than 50 per cent of cases are recorded in the epicenter of the virus, Lagos State.
“COVID-19 virus is still here with us, silently killing Nigerians,” the state immunisation coordinator, Lagos state Primary Health Care Board, Dr Olubunmi Akinlade told me, adding that the only way to win this war, is to vaccinate about 80 per cent of Nigerians. In Lagos State, the target was to vaccinate about 8,073,490 Lagosians, representing 54 per cent, but right now, the state has only vaccinated 27 per cent, Akinlade said.
At a two-day media roundtable on uptake of Routine Immunisation and COVAX in Lagos, organised by the United Nations Children’s Fund in conjunction with the National Orientation Agency in Lagos State, it was revealed that only 2,606,457 residents are vaccinated with the first dose; 2171,686 were vaccinated with the 2nd dose; 703,635 had taken their first booster dose and only 47,035 had taken their second booster dose.
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