The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19,
Boss Mustapha, says COVID-19 vaccination certificate will soon become a
mandatory requirement to travel anywhere in the world.
He, therefore, urged Nigerians to avail themselves to be
vaccinated against the lethal virus.
Mustapha, who is also the Secretary to the Government of the
Federation, stated this on Saturday at the New Banquet Hall of the Presidential
Villa, Abuja.
He spoke shortly after the President, Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, were vaccinated
against COVID-19.
After the exercise aimed at dissipating vaccine hesitancy
amongst Nigerians, the Executive Secretary of the National Primary Health Care
Development Agency, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, presented Buhari and Osinbajo with their
COVID-19 vaccination certificates.
Speaking at the event, the PTF chairman said, “Today, Mr
President and the Vice-President have equally demonstrated leadership by
offering themselves for the Nigerian people to believe in the safety and the
efficacy of the vaccines that we have procured and is being deployed.
“Vaccine hesitancy will have to give way to the reality
because the truth about it is that very soon, nobody will be able to travel the
world unless you produce the certificate that you have been given. I have not
confirmed this but reliably, some countries have started putting restrictions
for receiving visitors, even for exercising activities of their faith, without
a COVID-19 vaccination certificate.
“The word that is going out there on behalf of Mr President
is that Nigerians should make themselves available, those that are eligible in
the first phase of the deployment, because the deployment is going to be in
four phases, to receive these vaccines.
“They (vaccines) have been tested, our most strategic
leadership have received these vaccines this morning. They are safe, they are
efficacious and it is for the good and wellbeing of our people.”
Mustapha further urged Nigerians not to believe conspiracy
theories and myths about he vaccines.
Nigeria commenced its vaccination against the lethal
coronavirus infection on Friday after receiving about four million doses of
AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 on Tuesday.
Some health workers including the first Nigerian to receive
the vaccine on the country’s soil, Dr. Cyprian Ngong of the National Hospital,
Abuja, had received shots of the vaccines when the exercise was flagged off by
the PTF boss on Friday in Abuja.
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