Nigeria Govt Opens Website For COVID-19 Vaccination E-registration

The federal government has announced the opening of a portal for COVID-19 vaccination e-registration.

The government announced the development on Monday, asking to register for COVID-19 vaccination via the portal of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA).

Nigeria is expected to receive 3.92m doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, March 2, from COVAX.

According to the NPHCDA, the delivery of the AstraZeneca vaccine is part of an overall 16 million doses planned to be delivered to Nigeria in batches “over the next months by the COVAX facility.”

“Please visit the website http://nphcda.gov.ng and click on ‘COVID-19 Vaccination e-registration’ to register for #COVID19 vaccination,” the government said in a tweet.

Please visit the website https://t.co/MdqC5yHwTE and click on ‘COVID-19 Vaccination e-registration' to register for #COVID19 vaccination.#YesToCOVID19Vaccine pic.twitter.com/dUo5Tp8WSq

— Government of Nigeria (@NigeriaGov) March 1, 2021

Faisal Shuaib, chief executive officer of NPHCDA, in a statement, said the country has the required facilities to store all types of vaccines, while also expressing the readiness of the agency to receive and deliver the vaccine to Nigerians.

“We are fully prepared to receive and deliver the vaccine to eligible Nigerians as we have commenced the training of health workers and ensured that cold chain facilities are ready at all levels,” Shuaib said.

“We have a robust cold chain system that can store all types of COVID-19 vaccine in accordance with the required temperature. We are therefore confident that we will have a very effective roll-out of the vaccine, starting with our critical healthcare workers, who are in the frontline in providing the care we all need.”