President Muhammadu Buhari has received the booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The Pfizer BioNTech vaccine was administered to the president by his Personal physician Suhayb Rafndadi, on Tuesday at the presidential villa Abuja.
Buhari had taken the two mandatory AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine jabs on March 6 and May 29, 2021, respectively.
Speaking to Journalists after the president took his jab, The Executive Director of the National Primary healthcare development agency Faisal Shuaib, said the development will demonstrate the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine to Nigerians.
He said over eight million Nigerians had been vaccinated, adding that eight out of ten people that died from COVID-19 in Nigeria are unvaccinated.
Shuaib urged anti-vaxxers to push aside conspiracy theories, adding that the vaccine is not harmful to humans.
“The significance of the shot this morning is that the father of the nation is leading by example. As usual, he is among the first people that have taken the booster dose of the Pfizer BioNtech vaccine,” he said.
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Again, to show, clearly, to all Nigerians that it is safe, it is efficacious, and now that over eight million Nigerians have been vaccinated, here is another proof that this vaccine is safe and it’s a clarion call to all Nigerians to make themselves available to get the vaccine.“
“The evidence is there; over eight million Nigerians have taken the vaccines safely. They are well; they are going about their normal businesses and what we’re seeing from the data is that COVID-19 is now mostly a disease of the unvaccinated.
“Out of every 10 people that have died, the data shows that eight of them are unvaccinated. So, there’s a greater likelihood of dying from COVID-19 if you’re unvaccinated.
“What the President has done today is again to indicate to all Nigerians that federal government does everything to make sure that only safe and efficacious vaccines are brought into Nigeria and that when they are brought into Nigeria, we’ll double-check to make sure that it fits the very high standards that have been set by NAFDAC.
Editor: H.A.A
