The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has said that Nigerians under the age of 18 years will not receive the COVID-19 vaccines in the country.
The Minister of State for Health, Dr. Olorunnimbe Mamora, said that the Federal Government planned to cover 70 percent of Nigerians within two years.
Mamora warned that private organizations were not permitted to procure, distribute and administer the coronavirus vaccines.
To ensure smooth management of the four million vaccines arriving on Tuesday, Mamora said the PTF had approved the TEACH strategy and the electronic management immunization system.
He said that the strategy called the TEACH approach harnesses all the benefits of traditional, electronic, assisted, and concomitant house-to-house registration to optimize the use of innovative technology.
Mamora said that the TEACH approach entails the traditional method of vaccinating target populations using desk review of available data sources, identifying the vaccination sites, and roll out.
He described the strategy as innovative to ensure a smooth rollout so that no one was left behind.
Mamora warned against private importation of vaccines and emphasized that only the National Primary Health Care Development Agency would import and manage vaccines until further notice.
