By Kelechi David
Data recently released by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), has put Ekiti is one of the four states in the country to have successfully attained 100 percent coverage of the target set at the beginning of Phase 1 of the covid 19 vaccination exercise.
The first phase of the vaccination campaign was flagged off in the state on the 10th of March 2021, when the the State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi led other members of the State Executive Council and health workers to receive their first jabs of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine.
The report stated that Ekiti, Cross River, Lagos and Kwara states all attained the 100 percent mark, achieving their set targets for the first dose administration.
“In total, Ekiti State has successfully vaccinated a total number of 48,170 eligible persons. The report also stated that a total of 1,794,552 Nigerians had received the first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines across the 36 States of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.
The state commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr. Oyebanji Filani in a statement in Ado Ekiti, said that “shortly after the flag off in March, we deployed 78 teams comprising six health workers each to deliver the AstraZeneca shots across the state. We subsequently announced that the state had crossed the 10,000 milestone in the first week of the rollout of the state’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign.
“We have now taken delivery of an additional 40,000 doses of the vaccine and the second phase of the vaccination campaign would soon commence,” Dr Filani added.
The Commissioner stated that Ekiti State has continued to lead as a model sub-national government with integrated and holistic responses to tackling the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigating its economic impact on the people.
