December 1 Covid-19 Vaccination Mandatory For Civil Servants’ Sacrosanct -FG

The Nigerian government has stated that the vaccination deadline for civil personnel across the Federation will not be extended.

This was said by Dr Shu’aib Faisal, Executive Director of the National Primary Health-care Development Agency, NPHCDA, at a national media briefing in Abuja, Nigeria.

Before being admitted into their offices, he stated, all Federal Civil servants would be required to provide proof of having vaccinated against COVID-19, or a negative PCR test obtained within 72 hours, beginning December 1, 2021.

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“To make COVID-19 vaccines more accessible to government personnel, we’ve started office-to-office immunization in Federal Ministries, Departments, and Agencies” (MDAs). This simply implies that employees who have not yet been vaccinated will be able to register and get vaccinated at a vaccination location near their workplace. This will eliminate the excuse of needing to leave their place of business to go to a faraway immunization site.

“We would also want to highlight that civil officials will be randomly selected from time to time to check or assess their COVID-19 antibody title in order to discover those who may have illegally obtained vaccination cards without vaccination.” Anyone who is found to have illegally gotten a vaccination card without having been vaccinated will be turned over to the authorities. The immunizations are free and can be obtained at locations near you,” he stated.

“We’ve also engaged and are working with Nigerian military, police, and paramilitary agencies to construct mass vaccination centers in their various locations across the country.” We’ll also help with the deployment of our immunization teams to all of these institutions’ designated areas,” he added.

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COVID-19: Employees of the federal government must be vaccinated before December 1st.

According to Dr. Shu’aib, the NPHCDA will undertake a widespread vaccination campaign in refugee and internally displaced persons (IDP) camps around the country in partnership with the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and Internally Displaced Persons.

“This is to ensure that all refugees and internally displaced persons, as well as their families, are adequately safeguarded, and that the camps are livable.” This is the kind of cooperation we hope to see from other MDAs. As a result, we strongly encourage all MDAs to collaborate with us in order to expedite the immunization of their people. This is especially important now that the Omicron variation of COVID-19 has emerged, which is a more virulent strain of COVID-19 that is likely to cause more severe sickness.

“The coronavirus has a chance to change after every COVID-19 infection.” Vaccination thus aids in the prevention of variations. We’d also like to dispel the idea that if you’ve had COVID-19 sickness and recovered, you’re immune and don’t need to get vaccinated. This is FALSE, as studies show that if you’ve had COVID-19 before and haven’t been vaccinated, your chances of getting infected again are more than twice as great as those who have been infected and have been vaccinated.

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“This is a rallying cry for individuals who have yet to obtain COVID-19 vaccines to hurry up and take advantage of our mass immunization effort.” Those who have already received their first dose should make every effort to get their second dose on time, according to Dr Shu’aib.

Currently, over six million Nigerians have gotten the first dose of the vaccination, with over three million having received the entire vaccine.