The board said that every intending pilgrim going on hajj this year must be vaccinated before leaving for Saudi Arabia.
The country’s death toll stood at 2,027 as of March 19, 2021.
The agency also registered 13 additional COVID-19-related deaths as of Monday night.
“I am not going to subject the people of Kogi State to vaccination. I will not make them the guinea pigs.”
“To date, more than 136,335 people have recovered from COVID-19 and discharged.”
The agency also reported 464 new COVID-19 infections from 21 states and the FCT in the past 24 hours.
“There will be a supplementary budget. The first one will be in March.”
A lack of testing supplies mars Nigeria’s ability to ascertain the spread of the virus.
The NCDC said there were now 21,668 active cases across the country in the last 24 hours.
