President Muhammadu Buhari andVice-President Yemi Osinbajo were on Saturday vaccinated against COVID-19.
Buhari was vaccinated by his personal
physician, Dr. Suhayb Sanusi, at about 11.51am at a brief ceremony witnessed bytop government officials at the New Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa,Abuja.
Shortly after the President, Osinbajo wasalso vaccinated by his personal physician, Dr. Nicholas Audifferen, at about11.57am.
The President and his deputy werethe first among the nation’s strategic leaders to take the vaccine after somefrontline health workers at the treatment centre of the National Hospital,Abuja, were vaccinated on Friday.
The National Agency for Food and DrugAdministration and Control had early on Friday cleared the 3.924m doses ofAstraZeneca vaccine which arrived Nigeria on Tuesday for usage in the country.
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