COVID-19: Nasarawa govt begins vaccination of frontline workers COVID-19: Nasarawa govt begins vaccination of frontline workers Share The Nasarawa State Government has begun the vaccination of its frontline medical workers against the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr Ibrahim Adamu, Director of Public Health, Ministry of Health, said this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Tuesday, in Lafia. NAN reports that the state’s Deputy Governor, Dr Emmanuel Akabe, had earlier, on Tuesday, confirmed the delivery of 61,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines to the state. Adamu said that he was the first healthcare worker in the state to be vaccinated, adding that many were still being vaccinated at the time of filing this report.