There are strong indications that uncertainty now surrounds COVID-19 vaccination in at least ten states as the Federal Government says it has yet to receive the lists of their frontline health workers.
The states include Kano, Kogi, Osun, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Borno, Gombe, Jigawa, Katsina and Taraba.
This is according to a progress chart sent to the 36 states and the FCT by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency tagged, ‘Update from COVID-19 Vaccination Operations Room.’
But some of the states in separate reactions faulted the NPHCDA, saying they had submitted the lists and also blamed the agency for the confusion.
Recall that the Federal Government had on Tuesday received 3.94 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID – 19 vaccine and began vaccination with four frontline health workers in Abuja on Friday.
The Federal Government began the vaccination of Nigerians against the deadly disease on Friday when health workers at the National Hospital, Abuja received doses of the vaccine.
On Saturday, President, BUHARI and Vice-President YEMI OSINBAJO also received the first jabs of the vaccines in Abuja.
The Executive Director of the NPHCDA, Dr FAISAL SHUAIB, had on Thursday warned that his agency would not make the vaccine available to states which had not met the criteria set for its distribution.
