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Kogi Kicks Off Vaccination One Month After Nigeria Launched Exercise

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  • The state government took delivery of the first set of 16,900 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine on Monday night

The Kogi State government has finally commenced the vaccination of residents against COVID-19 in the state.

This comes one month after the Nigerian government launched the exercise with the vaccination of four frontline healthcare workers in Abuja on March 5, 2021.

Read also: Nigeria Takes Delivery Of Another 100,000 AstraZeneca Vaccines From India

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Kogi is the last of the 36 states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to commence the vaccination exercise.

Speaking at an event to flag-off of the exercise on Tuesday, the Commissioner for Health in Kogi, Haruna Saka, assured the residents that nobody would be deprived of taking the vaccine jab.

He stated that the state government has resolved not to compel any individual in Kogi to take the vaccine, stressing that it would only be administered at individual’s request.

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