• NPHCDA: more than one million Nigerians vaccinated against the virus
• Nigeria receives 604,000 NTD vaccines
Onyebuchi Ezigbo, James Emejo and Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja with a report
The world has never been better placed to end the COVID-19 pandemic, World Health Organization (WHO) leader Tedros Ghebreyesus said yesterday.
This is precisely when the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) revealed that so far more than 47 million eligible people in Nigeria have obtained COVID-19 vaccines.
NPHCDA CEO Dr. Faisal Shuaib received the 604,000 Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccines donated through the cellular telecommunications company, MTN-Nigeria.
It’s Ghebreyesus’ biggest positive opinion yet on the years-long fitness crisis that has killed more than 6 million people, Reuters reported.
“We’re there. But the end is in sight,” the WHO director-general told reporters at a virtual news conference.
This is the UN agency’s highest positive assessment since it declared an external emergency in January 2020 and began describing COVID-19 as a pandemic 3 months later.
The virus, which emerged in China in late 2019, has killed nearly 6. 5 million people and inflamed 606 million, sparking overwhelming global economies and health systems.
The rollout of vaccines and treatments has helped curb deaths and hospitalizations, and the Omicron variant that emerged late last year is causing less severe illness. COVID-19 deaths last week were the lowest since March 2020, the UN firm reported.
Also Wednesday, he suggested nations remain vigilant and likened the pandemic to a marathon race.
“Now is the time to run harder and make sure we cross the line and reap the rewards of all our hard work. “
Countries want to thoroughly review their policies and those of COVID-19 and viruses in the long term, Tedros added.
He also suggested countries vaccinate one hundred percent of their high-risk equipment and continue testing for the virus.
The WHO said countries want a good enough source of medical devices and physical workers.
“We expect there to be long-term waves of infections, potentially at other times around the world, caused by other Omicron subvariants or even other variants of concern,” said WHO senior epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove.
With more than one million deaths this year alone, the pandemic remains an emergency globally and in most countries.
“The COVID-19 summer wave, driven through Omicron BA. 4 and BA. 5, has shown that the pandemic is over as the virus continues to circulate in Europe and beyond,” a European Commission spokesperson said.
The next meeting of WHO experts to determine whether the pandemic still represents a public health emergency out of outside fear is scheduled for October, a WHO spokesman said.
“It’s fair to say that the peak of the global is moving beyond the emergency phase of the pandemic response,” said Dr. Michael Head, senior researcher in global fitness at the University of Southampton.
Governments are now more productive in controlling COVID as part of their physical care and regime surveillance, he added.
Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States have approved vaccines that target the Omicron variant, as well as the virus of origin, as countries prepare to launch winter booster campaigns.
In the United States, COVID-19 originally declared a public fitness emergency in January 2020, and this prestige has been renewed quarterly since then.
The U. S. Department of Health and Human Services is expected to be able to do so. The U. S. government renews it in mid-October for the time policymakers wait, before it expires in January 2023.
U. S. health officials are not allowed to take care of the U. S. health officials. U. S. officials have said the pandemic is not over, but the new bivalent vaccines mark a turning point in the fight against the virus.
They hope that a single annual vaccine similar to the flu vaccine will provide a high level of coverage and bring the country closer to normalcy.
NPHCDA: Over one million Nigerians vaccinated against COVID-19
Meanwhile, the NPHCDA revealed that so far more than 47 million eligible people in Nigeria have received COVID-19 vaccines.
NPHCDA CEO Dr. Faisal Shuaib received the 604,000 Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccines donated through cellular telecommunications company MTN-Nigeria.
The head of the NPHCDA he represented at the event, Dr. Bassey Okposen, said that “as of September 14, 2022, 47,172,937 eligible individuals have won the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, representing 42. 2% of the eligible population. “
According to him, 34,242,083 more people have been fully vaccinated, or 30. 6% of those eligible, while 3,678,412 of those fully vaccinated have gained their booster doses.
While congratulating MTN on its generous offer, Shuaib said the company has shown its preference for seeing the end of COVID-19 in Nigeria.
“One can believe what our costly country would have faced if we had not had help like we are receiving today from MTN.
“The explanation for why we are stockpiling here is to officially get the donation of 604,800 Johnson vaccines.
“MTN has been an unwavering spouse in the progress of the Nigerian government and a wonderful friend of the Nigerian people. So, on behalf of the Nigerian government and people, I would like to thank MTN for this exemplary support.
“Unequivocally, 604,800 doses of J vaccine
Speaking at the ceremony, MTN Nigeria, General Manager of Northern Regional Operations Hajia Amina Danbatta, said the company is committed, in collaboration with the African Union (AU) and the Vaccine Procurement Testing Program, to distribute Johnson’s vaccines.
But he explained that in 2021, vaccines were not yet available for distribution.
Danbatta noted, “In 2001, the global blow went through the pandemic and it was a time when each and every country suffered: we didn’t have the vaccines, we were suffering and learning at work.
“But fortunately, vaccines have evolved and are now being distributed. Now, in collaboration with the African Union (AU) and the Vaccine Procurement Testing Scheme, MTN has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in which MTN will distribute vaccines in Africa, in Nigeria, where we operate, where we have subscribers and where we operate our business. “
“And we contacted the Ministry of Health in October 2021, to our intentions in collaboration with the AU and its partners to deliver at least 604,000 Johnson vaccines.
“And they gave us permission to deliver last year and here we are today delivering those vaccines that we, the Ministry of Health, will distribute to those who want them.
“Fortunately, he brought vaccines to the country, but this Johnson
He added that MTN, being a corporate social organization, in the past began educating Nigerians through messages on the six principles that will be implemented to face the pandemic.
The representative of the World Health Organization’s country director, Dr. Walter Mulombo, said that vaccines have been shown to reduce the severity of COVID-19 disease. He suggested that all stakeholders come together to mobilize Nigerians to faint and get vaccinated to stop the disease. tide of infection.
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