Executive Director of NPHCDA, Faisal Shuaib, disclosed this during a press briefing in Abuja.

NPHCDA in a tweet said: “To register for #COVID19 Vaccination, visit our website http://nphcda.gov.ng and click on ‘COVID-19 Vaccination e-registration.”

Meanwhile, an advisory committee of the United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had earlier recommended Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine for widespread use, a final clearance for the shot after U.S. regulators authorized it Saturday.

State and local public health authorities will use Food and Drug Administration and CDC guidance as they administer the first four million doses.

Nigeria is expected to receive almost four million doses of the vaccine on Tuesday courtesy of COVAX, a global initiative backed by the World Health Organisation.

Minister of State for Health, Olorunnimbe Mamora, recently stated that frontline health workers would be one of the first set of people to get the vaccine.

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During the PTF COVID-19 Press briefing on Thursday, the SGF said: “Nigeria reopened the international airspace on 5th September, with flights allowed into Lagos and Abuja for now. Other International Airports will follow in due course.

“The PTF has also released the guidelines and protocols regarding the international flights, the obligations of airlines, the pre-boarding conditions and post-boarding choices available to passengers regarding arrangements and facilities for testing. Travelers are to visit the Nigeria International Travel Portal- www.nitp.ncdc.gov.ng to register before embarking on any international travels in and out of Nigeria.

“For emphasis, I wish to reiterate that all travelers arriving in Nigeria must have tested negative for COVID-19 by PCR in country of departure pre-boarding and the PCR test must be done within 72-96 hours before departure. It is also important to note that passengers are required to remain in self-isolation post-arrival and should undergo a mandatory COVID-19 test in a designated private laboratory by the seventh day after arrival.

The PTF is aware of and working with our partners to speedily resolve the teething challenges faced by intending travellers in accessing the portal, the costs of the test on arrival, inability to complete payment online and consequential inability to board. We therefore apologise to everyone that had experienced these challenges using the platform. We assure all Nigerians and visitors to Nigeria that the PTF is working across multi-layer stakeholder platforms to ease the bottlenecks.

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In his Press briefing during the daily update by the PTF COVID-19, Sirika said the company has been banned from operations indefinitely while the captain has been suspended for providing false information.

Breaking it down, he said the letter granting the 24-hour leeway for the company, Executive Jet was for the company to convey Justice Adefope Okojie for her official duty.

The approved letter read; “I am directed to refer to your letter dated 11th of June 2020 on the above subject matter and to convey the Hon. Minister’s approval for your company, Executive Jet Services to operate on a return flight from the Murtala Muhammad Airport Lagos to Nnamdi Azikwe Airport Abuja on the 14th of June 2020 to drop off Hon Justice Adefope Okojie for her official assignments.”

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“Until we are sure that our children can go to school and return safely without taking Covid-19 home, we are not ready to take the risk of opening schools,” he said at the daily press briefing of the task force today.

He said the Federal Government will rely on the opinion of experts and the guidance of the World Health Organisation before announcing any school resumption dates.

Nwajiuba said government is working on a model to ensure that all the children do not return to their schools at the same time to ensure physical and social distancing as well as proper sanitation and hygiene at every school.

The plan entails adopting a two-shift system and allowing those who will write exams to return earlier than others.

He urged state governments and owners of private schools to plan ahead on how to ensure maximum safety for students when the resumption plan is unveiled.

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The items was received on behalf of the Chairman/ Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, by the National Coordinator, Sani Aliyu, in Abuja.

The PTF Chairman thanked the Ansar-ud-Deen Society for coming to the aid of the Task Force by making such donation in the aid of the poor and vulnerable in the society.

He observed with gratitude the compliance level of the Society with regard to the ban on mass gathering in the form of worship in the mosques as well as adherence to the social/ physical distancing policy on COVID-19.

He said that faith-based organisations have continued to lend their support to the activities of the PTF noting that such support was what was required to curtail the pandemic urging other organisations to follow the worthy example of the Ansar-ud-Deen Society.
The SGF also stated that organisations such as Ansar-ud-Deen Society have continue to provide a platform for a strong united common voice in the struggle to curtail COVID-19 in the country.

Earlier, the Deputy National Chairman, Ansar-ud-Deen Society of Nigeria, Dr. Yusuf Adebayo Ibrahim, commended the efforts of the Federal Government by establishing the Presidential Task Force to combat COVID-19 in Nigeria.

He assured the PTF of its solidarity and support in the efforts aimed at protecting lives and property in the country by working hard to overcome the rampaging Coronavirus.

He pledged to continue to support the government in its activities which are citizen-centered and thus provide platform for advocacy, compliance and feedback for Muslims in Nigeria.

The Food items donated to the PTF included cartons of noodles and some bags of rice worth millions of naira.

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Receiving the EU delegation to the country, led by Amb Ketil Karlsen, President Buhari said the donation would go a long way in supporting Nigeria’s efforts at controlling & containing the virus to prevent community spread, as well as revitalise the national health care systems.

The President used the occasion to express sincere condolences of the Government and people of Nigeria to EU-member countries and families who lost their loved ones as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In his remarks, Ambassador Karlsen described the donation, channelled through the UN COVID-19 basket fund as, so far, the largest single contribution to the response in Nigeria and the largest support that EU is providing anywhere outside Europe.

The EU Ambassador congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari for “a very powerful address to the nation last night”, stressing “indeed the current situation is no joke and we wish to commend you for taking bold and necessary measures.”

He also announced that the European Union was mobilising other sources of funding, noting that they have already paid 1.2 million Euros to UNICEF, and goods purchased through that funding are expected in the country soon.

President Buhari with EU Head of Delegation Amb. Ketil Karlsen, Member EU Delegation Paulo Barroso Simoes, Minister Counsellor and Head of Cooperation Kurt Cornelis, & senior Nigerian Government and #Presidential Task Force for COVID-19 officials as he received European Union Delegation at the State House, today.

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Senior Special Assistant to the President, Garba Shehu in a statement he released Saturday said Buhari realizes that “today, there will be sons and daughters unable to visit their parents, and elders that are isolated from young ones. And there will be those who live day-to-day, eating as they earn, who face real and present suffering.

“No elected government could ask more of the citizens of the country that elected them than today we ask of you. But we must ask you – once more – to observe restrictions on movement where they are in place, and follow the instructions of our scientists and medical advisers: stay home, wash your hands, save lives.

“The freedoms we ask you to willingly forsake today will only last as long as our scientific advisers declare they are necessary. But they are essential – world over – to halt and defeat the spread of this virus.

“For those who suffer most egregiously, the Government has announced multiple measures to assist: 70,000 tonnes of grain is being released from the National Strategic Grain Reserves for distribution to those in most need; distribution of small cash payments are also being made, and will continue to be made by the federal government in the states and local government areas.

“We ask you to listen and follow public announcements via the mass media for instructions as to how to receive this government support – and learn of more public assistance in the coming days.

“All that the Government is asking you to endure is because nowhere in the world today is there any known way of defeating this pandemic. There is no vaccine. And that means there are choices to be made: between continuing as usual, or accepting the restrictions even when they come with unintended consequences.

“But at this darkest hour, it remains our duty to offer you the full and unvarnished truth: This is a global pandemic. 210 countries and territories across the globe are affected. We cannot expect others to come to our assistance. No one is coming to defeat this virus for us.

“Instead, the defeat of the virus in our country will be in our hands, alone. We cannot wait for others. We can only depend on ourselves now. And so we must – and we will – end this outbreak ourselves as Nigerians, together”.

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