Less that twenty-four hours after taking delivery of Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines, the Cross River State Government has started vaccinations of health workers with assurances that the vaccine is safe.
The first set of jabs were administered at the Lawrence Henshaw Memorial Hospital in Calabar South Local Government where Commissioner for Health and Chairman of Covid-19 Taskforce Team, Dr Betta Edu said the eligible population for the COVID-19 vaccinations are citizens aged 18 years and above, including pregnant women.
Edu who was accompanied by the Director General of the State Primary Health Care Development Agency, PHCDA, Dr Janet Ekpeyong said the vaccine will get to all the hard-to-reach communities of Cross River State.
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She called on the citizens living in the urban centres to register online, while the primary health care workers will locate the people living in the rural areas.
The Cross River State Government received fifty three thousand eight hundred and forty (53,840) doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from the Federal Government with frontline health workers, COVID-19 rapid response team, laboratory workers among those who recieved the first set of vaccinations
Editor-Oloyede Oworu
