FG Working To Make COVID Booster Shots Available – Boss Mustapha

Boss Mustapha, secretary to the government of the federation and chairman of the presidential steering committee (PSC) on COVID-19 says the federal government is making efforts to make available booster shots of the COVID vaccine.

Mustapha stated this on Monday at a media briefing in Abuja.

A COVID-19 booster shot is an extra dose given to people to maintain vaccine-induced protection against the virus.

According to him: “Efforts are also ongoing to bring on board the booster dose so as to build a healthy level of anti-bodies,”

“The PSC wishes to assure Nigerians that the NPHCDA has enough vaccines in the pipeline to vaccinate about 50 percent of the target population by the end of January 2022.”

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He added: “We have received intelligence and even detected that some unscrupulous citizens are procuring vaccination cards through the black market,”

“Let me assure everyone that the vaccination records/certificates will be verified and this should serve as a warning to those criminally-minded persons to desist because they will be prosecuted accordingly.”