The Governor of Abia State on Thursday received his first Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine jab. It was administered to him by his Personal Physician, Dr Mike Enyinnaya, at the Government House Umuahia.
After he was vaccinated, the governor called on those within the age bracket recommended for the vaccine make themselves available for their own jabs.
“The deployment of the vaccine as a device to fight COVID-19 is a global decision endorsed by the World Health Organization and captured by the NCDC which is the lead agency in Nigeria that is battling covid-19 and charged everybody to key into the agenda,” he said.
The Federal Government has been sharing about four million doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 recently shipped into the country to all the states of the federation.
Speaking when the governor got vaccinated, the Executive Secretary, Abia State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr Chinagozie Adindu said that the vaccine was good and efficacious. He said that after the first dose, those vaccinated would still have to receive a second jab in the next two months between eight and 12 weeks.