Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Boss Mustapha; Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire; Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed; and other top government officials on Monday took the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
Members of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 were administered the vaccine during the committee’s weekly national briefing, NAN reports.
The other PTF team includes Minister of Environment, Muhammad Mahmood and Minister of State for Health, Olorunnimbe Mamora, Director-General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu; Minister of Foreign Affairs ,Geoffrey Onyeama, and the National Incident Manager (NIM) PTF, Mukhtar Muhammad, among others.
Before he received the vaccine, Mustapha said: “Today, Monday, March, 8, 2021, I will lead all members of the PTF to receive the first doses of the vaccine as a further demonstration of the safety and efficacy.
“Also, our journalists who are critical front-liners in this fight will receive the vaccine in a representative manner.”
Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo had on Saturday received the COVID-19 vaccines on Saturday.