The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday received the shot of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines.
The governor was vaccinated alongside his Deputy, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, and some commissioners.
Also, senior government officials and frontline health workers got the vaccine at the Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba in the presence of the World Health Organisation, and other international health organisations’ officials.
Sanwo-Olu, however noted that the vaccine had side effects after receiving doses of it.
He said the vaccine is safe, stressing that it was brought in to prevent COVID-19 from having an adverse effect on the state.
He said, “I received the Oxford-AstraZeneca #COVID19 vaccine at the Infectious Diseases Hospital(IDH), Yaba.
“The vaccine has been declared safe by the WHO and I want to encourage everyone to take it as we begin vaccination in Lagos.
“To manage the process, we have set up a team of healthcare, distribution and security professionals.
“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.
“Over the next couple of days, we will be vaccinating our frontline health workers at 3 centres to ensure we are protecting our selfless and hardworking frontline heroes.”