COVID-19: Jigawa plans to vaccinate 3.6m people by December 24

Jigawa State Governor Muhammad Badaru Abubakar has stated that 3.6 million people in the state will be vaccinated against COVID-19 by December 24, 2021.

After flagging off a mass vaccination exercise in the state’s Kiyawa Local Government Area on Thursday, he said.

According to Badaru, the state has conducted 20,318 tests, with 617 cases resulting in positive results, as well as 17 deaths.

According to him, the state began the vaccination program in Dutse in March of this year, and so far 122,000 people have received the first dose, with another 52,000 receiving both the first and second dose.

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“Between now and the end of 2021, we intend to reach out to at least 5000 eligible people in each of our 287 political wards,” he said.

He did, however, direct all local government chairmen and their teams to work extremely hard in close collaboration with religious and traditional institutions to ensure that more than half of the state’s population was vaccinated before the deadline.

The Executive Secretary of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, represented by Zonal Director Dr. Bashir Muhamman, stated that 111 million people, or 70% of the country’s population, are expected to be vaccinated by the end of December 2022.

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He went on to say that the vaccine would be given out at all primary health care facilities, general hospitals, and private hospitals throughout the country.