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The first dose of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine was administered for the first time in Nigeria to a frontline medical doctor on Friday in Abuja, the federal capital territory (FCT).
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the COVID-19 vaccine was administered to the frontline medical doctor at the National Hospital, Abuja.
Dr Ngong Cyprian, who has been working at the COVID-19 isolation centre at the National Hospital, Abuja since March 2020, is the first person in Nigeria to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Other health care workers that joined Dr Ngong to first receive the AstraZeneca vaccine in Nigeria are Nurse Faith E. Eragbai, Dr. Nuru Joseph and Dr. Thairu Yunusa.
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TNG reports Nigeria started the COVID-19 vaccination after the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines passed assessment by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDC).
While Dr Ngong is a Family Physician at the National Hospital, Abuja, Dr Yunusa is a Pathologist with the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital.
Ngon had been the Head of the COVID-19 Isolation Centre at National Hospital Abuja since February 2020 when the virus was first detected in Nigeria.
The third person to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, Dr Samudeen is the National Hospital Abuja Family Physician at the Accident and Emergency unit.
With today’s occasion, Nigeria is now set to go ahead and use the 3.924 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine which arrived the country on March 2 through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
Meanwhile, the Federal Government had launched a website where Nigerians could log on and register for the vaccination.
Government, therefore, advised citizens to log on to the website on NPHCDC website.
The healthcare development agency said that “to register for the COVID-19 vaccination, visit our website — nphcda.gov.ng — and click on ‘COVID-19 vaccination e-registration.”