Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Friday disclosed that the AstraZeneca COVID-19 inoculation would take place in designated locations
Sanwo-Olu made the statement while receiving his first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 COVAX vaccine at the Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba in the presence of officials from the World Health Organisation and other international health organisations’ officials.
“Vaccination will begin at 88 designated locations for Phase 1 which consists of medical workers, police, military, laboratory, port health, judiciary and rapid response teams,” he said.
The exercise also saw his deputy, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, some commissioners, senior officials and frontline health workers in IDH got vaccinated on Friday.
After his vaccination, the governor reiterated that “the vaccine has been declared safe by the WHO and I want to encourage everyone to take it as we begin vaccination in Lagos.”
Speaking further, he reaffirmed that the state government will vaccinate frontline health workers first, as earlier stated by the Health Commissioner, Professor Akin Abayomi.
“Over the next couple of days, we will be vaccinating our frontline health workers at three centres to ensure we are protecting our selfless and hardworking frontline heroes,” he added.
Sanwo-Olu continued by highlighting the process of the vaccination for Lagosians during the first phase which kicked-off today.
“To manage the process, we have set up a team of healthcare, distribution and security professionals.
