Kebbi govt receive 57,810 Astra Zeneca doses of covid-19 vaccines

The Kebbi State Government has received delivery of 57,810 doses of Astra Zeneca COVID-19 vaccines from the Federal Government.

The State Commissioner for Health, Alhaji Muhammad Ja’afar Zuru, who disclosed this while briefing newsmen stated that, the state had received the first batch of Astra Zeneca COVID-19 Vaccines early morning of Thursday.

“A total number of 57,810 doses and devices have been allocated and delivered to Kebbi state.”

The Commissioner assured that, the vaccines were safe, saying the frontline health care workers would be the first to receive the vaccines.

According to him, aside from the frontline health workers who will be first vaccinated then, it will be followed by other health workers, strategic political leaders of the three tiers of governments, traditional and religious leaders as well as other frontline workers as media, security agencies and bank officials as well as citizens of the state.

Alhaji Ja’afar Zuru said, the vaccines were stored at the state cold medical stores where it will be transported to the twenty one local government areas cold stores and to facility solar fridges where the vaccination will be continue across the state.

The commissioner revealed that, the vaccination would commence as soon as the modality for the vaccine inoculation is completed.

Abdullahi Tukur