Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun state has on Monday received his first dose of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine.
The Governor made the announcement via his Twitter page, saying it is first service to self then to the people of the state when the vaccines are received.
I just had my dose of the Astra-Zeneca COVID-19 vaccine. The doses were delivered today in Abeokuta.
It is first service to self then people, when we take the vaccine because we must silence the virus.#COVID19 #BuildingOurFutureTogether #ISEYA #OgunState pic.twitter.com/qnSD2wbMbd
— Prince Dr. Dapo Abiodun – MFR (@dabiodunMFR) March 8, 2021
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The state earlier on Monday received 50,000 out of 100,000 expected doses of COVID -19 vaccines from the Federal Government.
Receiving the vaccines at the governor’s office in Abeokuta, Governor Abiodun noted that the remaining 50,000 doses of the vaccines would arrive the state later in the night.
On behalf of the Ogun State Government, I received in Abeokuta, 50,000 doses of the total 100,000 #COVID19 vaccines in the first supply. pic.twitter.com/ZCKveAyFfB
— Prince Dr. Dapo Abiodun – MFR (@dabiodunMFR) March 8, 2021
The governor hinted that the state government would commence the vaccinations in line with the scheduled guidelines laid down by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA).
We are the first State in the Federation to receive such consignment, and the State specially appreciates President @MBuhari & the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19, led by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Boss Mustapha.#BuildingOurFutureTogether #COVID19
— Prince Dr. Dapo Abiodun – MFR (@dabiodunMFR) March 8, 2021
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Abiodun added that the state government had identified particular state hospitals, general hospitals, primary health care centres across the state that would be used for the vaccination.
He expressed;
I am sure you are aware that there is a portal that already exists and there is a link that allows you to register or preregister and identify your local government so it can be close to the available centre as possible.
We will be prioritising our front line health workers, our elders and we go down the line as stipulated by NPHCDA.
According to him, the arrival of the vaccines signaled the beginning of the end of the pandemic that had disrupted lives in the last 13 months.
Abiodun noted;
This vaccines that we are getting, the protocol is that we get the first shot and then we get the booster shots and it is not until we get that booster shots that we have the required level of immunity.
Even at that, what science tells us is that it is meant to reduce the severity of disease so the COVID-19 protocols and guidelines will still continue to obtain.
We are beginning to see the end of the pandemic, the COVID- 19 protocols and guidelines continues.
The governor said he and his Deputy, Noimot Salako-Oyedele, “would lead in taking the vaccines”.
