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This advocacy was made at a one-day advocacy meeting organized by the Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism in collaboration with UNICEF for local government Information officers and media practitioners on improving COVAX confidence and uptake at grassroots in Oyo State, held in Oyo Town.
Speaking at the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19 briefing on Monday, in Abuja, the minister said: “The dreaded 3rd wave of COVID-19 may appear to be levelling out, because there had been no catastrophic increases in infections and fatalities.
In a statement on Sunday, the administration of the second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine will be held across 88 vaccination sites used during the first phase of the vaccination exercise for 20 days; between Monday 30th August and Friday 24tb September, 2021.
The NCDC stated this on its website on Friday morning, noting that the country’s total infections had risen to 185,267.
The NCDC, which disclosed this via its verified website on Thursday morning, said that the country registered 790 additional infections on Wednesday, a sharp increase from the 610 cases it registered a day earlier.
This was made known on the NCDC website on Tuesday morning.
The Director-General of WHO, Tedros Ghebreyesus said this on Friday at his regular COVID-19 briefing.
The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Tuesday morning.
The state’s Commissioner for Health, Dr. Tomi Coker, in a statement on Thursday said that the state had yet to record the new variant of the virus as being reported.
It revealed that the country’s COVID-19 active cases now stood at 2,138 with majority in stable conditions.
WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus stated this in his remarks to the 8th meeting of the Emergency Committee on COVID-19.
The State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Tomi Coker, made this known in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abeokuta.