Meet the first person that takes covid-19 vaccine in Nigeria

Dr. Cyprian Nyong is the first health care practitioner that received covid-19 vaccine in Nigeria upon arrival on March third 2021.

Nyong is a staff of Abuja hospital and was vaccinated by Executive Director of Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA). Dr Faisal Shuaibu at Abuja.

“I am happy to be the first and I am happy I am not the last,” the doctor, 42-year-old Ngong Cyprian, told Reuters. “I want everybody to be vaccinated.”

Two other male doctors and one female nurse were also inoculated in white tents draped in green, the colors of the national flag, while cameras rolled and officials clapped and cheered.

Nigeria, with 157,671 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 1,951 deaths, has not been as hard hit by the pandemic as initially feared, but is aiming to vaccinate 40% of its people this year, and a further 30% in 2022.

It took delivery of 3.92 million doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine on Tuesday through the COVAX scheme. Nigeria expects to receive 84 million doses of the vaccine from COVAX this year.