NCDC, NPHCDA Announces Readiness For COVID -19 Vaccine Distribution
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NCDC, has announced a distribution plan for the COVID-19 vaccine in the country, saying that the rate of infection in each state was the criterion used in the distribution.
It revealed the plan alongside the publication of the latest infection rates for the disease by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on its verified website.
Based on the rate of infection in the states, the distribution list of the COVID-19 vaccine indicated that Kano State will receive three thousand, five hundred and fifty-seven the highest, followed by Lagos, three thousand, one hundred and thirty-one.
The least vaccine, six hundred and sixty-one will go to Nasarawa State while Anambra State will receive one thousand, three hundred and seventy-nine among other states.
The NPHCDA said that though all of the states were getting less than four thousand vaccines from the first batch, the federal government had advised that frontline workers, like those in the health and security sectors, be given priority, as well as the elderly.
The agency said that the vaccine, expected to be administered in January and February, would be done in compliance with WHO standards as the federal government was also sourcing for more vaccines from other countries like Russia.
