ABUJA, Oct 13 (Reuters) – Nigeria would require civil servants to indicate proof of vaccination towards COVID-19 or a adverse take a look at for the illness to achieve entry to their workplaces from the start of December, a presidential committee stated on Wednesday.
The presidential committee stated unvaccinated authorities staff might want to current a adverse take a look at consequence finished inside 72-hours earlier than they’re granted entry to their workplaces throughout the nation and its embassies overseas.
“An acceptable service vast advisory/round will likely be issued to information the method,” Boss Mustapha, chairman of the presidential steering committee on COVID-19, stated in a press release.
Nigeria has administered some 5 million vaccine doses to its 200 million residents, and is within the midst of deploying hundreds of thousands extra doses of Moderna (MRNA.O) and AstraZeneca (AZN.L) pictures acquired by way of the COVAX vaccine scheme for growing nations.
It additionally has 1.12 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) vaccine that it bought by way of an African Union programme and is scheduled to obtain 7.7 million doses of the Sinopharm (1099.HK) vaccine through COVAX.
Nigeria, which has not examined broadly for COVID-19, has thus far recorded 208,153 confirmed infections and a pair of,756 deaths from the virus.
In Could, Nigeria banned travellers coming from some nations the place COVID-19 was spreading quickly.
The presidential committee stated it had determined to take away South Africa, Turkey and Brazil from its restricted journey checklist following a overview of developments in these nations.
Reporting by Felix Onuah; writing by Chijioke Ohuocha; enhancing by Philippa Fletcher
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