For Nigeria to achieve herd immunity against the COVID-19 virus, the citizens must be willing to accept and take shots of the vaccines authorised for use by international health agencies.
This was the consensus when stakeholders in the health sector gathered at the end a knowledge-sharing event for the “Accelerating Equitable Access, Acceptance, and Uptake of COVID-19 Vaccines (ACCESS)” in Abuja on Thursday.
Speaking at the event, the Executive Secretary of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Primary Health Care Board, Isah Vatsa, said the country must vaccinate at least 70 per cent of the eligible population to achieve herd immunity against COVID-19.
