The Federal Government on Thursday, said it will begin the vaccination against COVID-19 in the country on Friday.
The Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr Faisal Shuaib, announced this on Thursday at a presidential briefing held at the State House in Abuja.
He revealed that the government would kick-off the exercise at the National Hospital in Abuja where the frontline health workers there would be the first set of people to be vaccinated.
Shuaib also hinted that the President, Muhammadu Buhari, and the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, would also take their vaccine shots a day after the health workers were administered the vaccines.
He further disclosed that members of the Federal Executive Council would be vaccinated on Monday.
Shuaib insisted that the vaccines would not be deployed to any state that has not fulfilled its preparedness criteria.