Nigerians have abandoned COVID-19 protocols despite the detection of Delta variant, a highly contagious strain of the virus. This is with a concurrent increase in the occupancy rate at Lagos State isolation centres. The Medical Centre Emergency Contact line: 09095879781 remains open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. He advised Nigerians to embrace non-pharmaceutical means of curbing the Delta variant of coronavirus. “3,924,000 doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca by end of July or early August 2021 from the COVAX facility, 3,930,910 doses of Pfizer-Bio-N Tech COVID-19 vaccine in August from the COVAX facility donated by the United States Government, 3,577,860 doses of Pfizer-Bio-N Tech COVID-19 vaccine in Q3 from the COVAX facility ,29,850,000 doses of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine by the end of September, that will arrive in batches from the African Union Commission.

Source: Punch July 13, 2021 23:48 UTC