COVID-19: Lawan Takes Vaccine, Calls for More Sensitisation

COVID-19: Lawan Takes Vaccine, Calls for More Sensitisation

By Deji Elumoye and Udora Orizu

President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, took the lead at the National Assembly yesterday when he received the first jab of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.

The vaccine was administered on him in his fourth floor office by his personal physician, Dr. Muhammad Usman, while the vaccination card was presented to him by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Health (Secondary and Tertiary), Senator Ibrahim Oloriegbe.

Lawan called for more advocacy and sensitisation on the vaccine, appealing to Nigerians to make themselves available for the vaccination.

He congratulated the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 for working so hard to ensure that the vaccine is available for Nigerians.

Lawan said: ‘’I urge all Nigerians especially those within the range specified by the health authorities and those at the frontline that we make ourselves available. Let the vaccine not be limited to areas that are accessible only. We have areas that are not very much accessible in the riverine areas in the Niger Delta, in the northern most part of the country, the desertified areas.

“We should use the system that we have used before in getting our people vaccinated over the year. Our traditional rulers, our traditional institutions have played very significant roles in enlightenment. Our clergies. Our imams. This is something that we have to do because Nigeria is not an island. We are part of the global community. I believe that at the end of the day, we can only achieve the hard immunity that is desired if we are able to reach at least 70 to 75 percent of those that are supposed to be vaccinated in the country.’’

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