The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has confirmed that that his administration is set to deploy the covid19 vaccine to residents.
He said this through the official twitter handle of his Chief Press Secretary, Gboyega Akosile.
Akosile’s tweets were gathered from the governor’s interview with Channels Television on Sunday.
Sanwo-Olu said discussions are at an advanced stage with Pfizer and “Oxford-AstraZeneca, Developers of Moderna have written to us and we have written back to them.”
His government plans to vaccinate about 60% of the state population.
The tweets:
“Aside the vaccine arrangement being made by the Federal Government for States, the Governor said Lagos, which is the epicentre of #COVID19 infection, had activated plans to augment the vaccine that would be delivered to the State.
“He said: ‘As a sovereign, we want the Federal Government to take the lead in getting the vaccine. As a sub-national Government, we are taking our destiny into our own hand. We have started conversation with some of the vaccine manufacturers.
“I have made contact with Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca. Developers of Moderna have written to us and we have written back to them
“We are making our own sub-national contacts and part of the things to come out of this effort is that, once we see what the national government is doing in terms of protocols, then we can plan for our rollout. The contacts we made with vaccine developers are at the board level”.
“We don’t have to vaccinate the whole of 22 million people in Lagos. The plan is around ensuring that there is herd immunity and that typically speaks to 50 to 60 per cent of our population. That’s the target we need to really meet in vaccine rollout.”
“On how Lagos would get resources to fund its vaccine programme, the Governor said the bulk of the finances would be realised from the private sector donations and international grant, adding that the State Government also had allocation for #COVID19 project in its 2021 budget.
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