The National Primary Health Care Development Agency says Abia and Taraba have the lowest number of vaccinated people in Nigeria.

The NPHCDA said, “As of Thursday evening, 818,865 eligible Nigerians have been vaccinated.

“The states with the lowest number of vaccinated people are Abia with 1,874 and Taraba with 2,760 people vaccinated so far,” the NPHCDA disclosed on its official Twitter handle on Thursday.

According to the agency, the country has vaccinated no fewer than 800,000 people.

Nigeria kicked off the COVID-19 vaccination on March 5, 2021. The country commenced vaccination, with healthcare workers most at risk of the virus.

The NPHCDA added that Lagos had vaccinated 152,261 people, making it the highest in the country, followed by Ogun with 51,608, Kaduna – 49, 759, Kano – 39,818, Katsina – 38,476, and Bauchi – 34,795 persons.

The agency stated that the proportion of eligible people vaccinated in the country was 40.7 per cent as of April 1.

The agency, however, said the nation plans to vaccinate 109 million people against the COVID-19 virus over a period of two years.

The COVID-19 vaccination has commenced in all states across the country except Kogi.

Since the pandemic’s onset, Kogi, which has reported only five cases, was not supplied with vaccines due to a lack of storage facility.

The country received over 3.94 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines through COVAX. This UN-backed effort promised access to vaccines for up to 20 per cent of participating countries’ population.

The country also received another 300,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines from telecom giant MTN as part of the latter’s contribution to Africa.

(NAN)