The Centre for Information Technology and Development has organized a public education project to enlighten Nigerians on the role and relevance of COVID vaccination.
Speaking at the event, Project Manager, Public Education Vaccine Project, CITAD, Hamza Ibrahim said taking the vaccine is a way to prevent against contacting the virus, adding governments at different levels, civil society or private sector-led initiatives and members of the society have a crucial role to play in public education on COVID vaccine enlightenment.
“For example in Borno state, there are 87 vaccination spots across the 27 local governments of the state. But the main challenge of getting as people as possible vaccinated are, lack of COVID certificate seal or barcode in 70% of the vaccination spots; nonpayment of COVID vaccine administrators; misconception on vaccine amongst government officials and lack of sufficient information on where and how to be vaccinated.