THE Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, has said 2,195,779 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Lagos as of January 12, 2022.
Abayomi made this known on Saturday, January 15th, through his official Twitter account @ProfAkinAbayomi while giving the state’s Vaccination Update. According to the commissioner, 1,026,144 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine were administered as the first dose, while 569,920 of the vaccine were administered as the second dose for recipients.
335,404 Moderna vaccines were administered as the first dose, while 249,699 were administered for the second dose.
Professor Abayomi also disclosed that 5,664 doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine were given as the first dose, and 8,948 were administered as the second dose.
Abayomi said that 25,145 Pfizer doses and 388 doses of the Moderna vaccine had been administered as boosters. He noted that 3.42 per cent of the targeted population had received two doses of the vaccines.
But 13,895,199 more doses of vaccines need to be administered for Lagos state to achieve its herd immunity target.
