Main Reason We Asked States To Stop COVID-19 Vaccination, FG
It is clear that recently FG ordered all states to stop COVID-19 Vaccination
State Governments in the country were asked to put on hold COVID-19 vaccinations because of the shortage of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the international market, Minister of State for Health, Olorunnimbe Mamora, said Tuesday.
He said the directive became necessary as a person is supposed to get two doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines – administered at least two months apart – so, it was needless for people to only take a shot when it wasn’t clear when Nigeria would take delivery of the next batch of vaccines.
“We believe that in a situation where we still cannot specifically determine when the next batch of AstraZeneca vaccine will arrive, then I think wisdom on dictates that it’s better for us to vaccinate people fully,” Mamora said.
All the states were instructed to suspend vaccination when they reach half of the doses delivered to them, Mamora noted at a media briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja.
States To Stop COVID-19 Vaccination
The remaining half would be used to complete the doses of the people who had taken the jab. “So we felt that it was proper for us in the circumstance to ensure that those who have been vaccinated have been fully vaccinated,” he said.
“And so, we can say that we have a pool of citizens that have been fully vaccinated since this vaccination comes in two doses.”
According to the Punch, the shortage of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the international market is caused by a surge in the demand by the European Union and a new policy by India which manufactures the vaccine.
India had said last week that if its COVID-19 surge in infections doesn’t subside, “I am scared of what … we will have to do, and what will happen,” said Adar Poonawalla, who is the chief executive of Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine maker, based in India. “We are going to have to keep supplying to India, and not anywhere else. Because we have to protect our nation.”
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States To Stop COVID-19 Vaccination
