Get Vaccines, COVID-19 Still Here – NPHCDA Warns Nigerians

Get Vaccines, COVID-19 Still Here – NPHCDA Warns Nigerians
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In the face of the obvious lack of seriousness, the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has called on Nigerians to do everything within their powers to protect themselves against COVID-19.

The Kwara State Coordinator, Hanifa Hamza made this call while speaking yesterday at a stakeholders’ training in Ilorin.

The official appealed to Nigerians to go for testing, explaining that the virus was real and still spreading.

Hamza further assured that sufficient vaccines were available across the country.

Read Also: COVID-19: 3.5m Nigerians Now Fully Vaccinated – NPHCDA

‘COVID-19 transmission is crazy. Please don’t relax, it has come to stay like catarrh or malaria.’

Hamza called for precautions, adding that people should not joke with hand sanitiser.

‘Take vitamin C, eat a balanced diet regularly, use your nose and booster dose,’ she advised.

Jessica Akinrongbe, NCDC Senior Emergency Response Officer advised people below 60 years to take precautionary measures against the virus.

Africa Daily News, New York had earlier reported that the Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, has pointed out that the COVID-19 vaccine is built not only to treat coronavirus but also train the immune system to create antibodies.

According to him, COVID-19 vaccine trains the body immune system to create antibodies.

Shuaib asserted that vaccines help the body to make antibodies that serve as proteins that fight off infections and diseases.

He explained that if someone is vaccinated and comes in contact with a bacteria/virus that cause diseases, the system will recognise it and give some level of protection.

Africa DailyNews, New York reports that as of August 4, about 23,627,968 eligible persons across the country had been fully vaccinated.

A total of 11,948,229 of the figure have been partially vaccinated in 36 states and the FCT.

Africa Daily News, New York

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