By Ahmed Rahma
The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said that over 100 million Nigerians would have received the COVID-19 vaccine by March 2021.
Speaking on Channels Television on Thursday, the Director-General of NCDC, Mr Chikwe Ihekweazu, stated that efforts to enlighten Nigerians on the benefits of vaccines are currently ongoing around the country.
“No medical intervention, not one, has saved more lives since the beginning of mankind than vaccination.
“No great hospital, no surgery, no medicine, not even antibiotics, has saved more lives than vaccines.
“We’ve just celebrated, in-between this pandemic, the elimination of polio in Nigeria.
“We completely eliminated smallpox through the effort of humans through vaccination,” Mr Ihekweazu said on the programme yesterday.
He further said, “We are going to work very hard to educate Nigerians on the benefits of vaccines, the opportunity it gives us to return to our normal lives, and that’s what’s going on around the country right now.”
Concluding, he said, “By the time we get this vaccine sometime in the first quarter of next year, there will be hundreds of millions of people that would already have received this vaccine.”
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