COVID-19: ECOWAS recommends compensation for vaccine side effects, injury
Adelani Adepegba, Abuja
The ECOWAS Vaccines Taskforce has recommended compensation for citizens who suffer side effects or injury from the COVID-19 vaccination.
This is one of the resolutions adopted by the task force and presented to the ECOWAS Ministerial Coordinating Committee to encourage citizens to receive the vaccines.
The Director- General, the West African Health Organization, Prof Stanley Okolo, disclosed this at the 5th Regional Steering Committee meeting of the Regional Disease Surveillance Systems Enhancement Programme project on Friday.
The President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, were given the COVID-19 vaccine in Abuja on Saturday.
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