Persons who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 are not safe, as many people may have thought. This is due to the changes associated with the virus.
Consequently, the Lagos State Government has announced that fully vaccinated residents may have to take extra doses as part of a safety precaution against COVID-19.
Commissioner for Health in Lagos State, Professor Akin Abayomi, made this known during a briefing in Ikeja, the state capital.
WHAT THIS MEANS:
- As the virus is changing, it is required that residents should be administered more than two doses.
- Even though the vaccine stops people from getting seriously sick, it may not necessarily stop them from catching Covid again.
- While people that are fully vaccinated with two doses will still catch Covid, some people will get quite sick and occasionally, some people may die.
- The mortality rate among people that have not been vaccinated is higher than those that have been vaccinated.
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According to Prof. Abayomi, the Governor Babajide Sawo-Olu-led government plans to vaccinate 30 percent of Lagos residents by the end of the year.
Meanwhile, Lagos has been scored high by members of the diplomatic community in the state following the government’s COVID-19 response and management effort which have seen the nation’s commercial capital overcome successive waves of the global pandemic.
Members of the diplomatic communities, during a visit to Professor Abayomi, agreed that the Lagos State Government has done a lot to mitigate the scourge of the infection. They, however, pledged to continue to offer support to the COVID19Lagos response directly and indirectly.
Laurence Monmayrant, the Consul-General of France in Nigeria, expressed satisfaction over the biosecurity facilities that were put in place at Infectious Disease Hospitals (IDH) by the State Government to prosecute the war against the global pandemic.
