The Federal Government will on Friday begin the administration of COVID-19 vaccine booster doses to protect Nigerians from the new Omicron variant.
It noted that only fully vaccinated Nigerians with a six-month interval between their last vaccination will be eligible to get the booster doses.
As of December 9, a total of 7,361,810 Nigerians have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, representing 6.6 percent of the eligible population.
Exactly 3,846,762 eligible Nigerians have received their second doses and are fully vaccinated against the virus, representing 3.4 percent of the eligible population.
Faisal Shuaib, the executive director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA, made these known during the Flag-off of COVID-19 mass vaccination of refugees, migrants, and internally displaced persons, IDPs.
He said: “Following the detection of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in Nigeria, the Federal Government reviewed the country’s vaccination programme and resolved to introduce the booster dose using the Pfizer Bio-N-Tech vaccine across the country.
“This will take effect as from Friday the 10th of December 2021.”
