{"id":39384,"date":"2021-03-19T13:31:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T13:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=39384"},"modified":"2021-03-19T12:04:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T12:04:49","slug":"jigawa-journalists-receive-astrazeneca-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/jigawa-journalists-receive-astrazeneca-vaccines","title":{"rendered":"Jigawa journalists receive AstraZeneca vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Journalists in Jigawa State have received their first doses of COVID-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>This followed the Governor\u2019s directives that all stakeholders in the fight against COVID-19 should be vaccinated in the first round of the vaccines exercise.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that Jigawa State Governor, Muhammad Badaru Abubakar alongside his Deputy and members of the executive council have received their first doses of AstraZeneca.<\/p>\n<p>The Governor, however, said the COVID-19 vaccine will be administered to COVID-19 front line workers including healthcare staff, religious leaders, traditional rulers, security personnel and journalists.<\/p>\n<p>Jigawa State Government received 68,520 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, to be administered on 35,000 people which is only 1% of the state population.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the vaccination, Chairman of the Jigawa State correspondent chapel, Comrade Ahmed Abubakar said the COVID-19 vaccine is free and safe.<\/p>\n<p>He said journalists were vaccinated for being active in the fight against the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Journalists in Jigawa State have received their first doses of COVID-19 vaccines. This followed the Governor\u2019s directives that all stakeholders in the fight against COVID-19 should be vaccinated in the first round of the vaccines exercise. DAILY POST reports that Jigawa State Governor, Muhammad Badaru Abubakar alongside his Deputy and members of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":39383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1438,28,26],"tags":[1570,2140,3395,708,767,254],"class_list":["post-39384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-coronavirus-in-nigeria","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-astrazeneca","tag-jigawa","tag-journalists","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jigawa journalists receive AstraZeneca vaccines - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Journalists in Jigawa State have received their first doses of COVID-19 vaccines. 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