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Workers Stranded As FG Enforce ‘No Vaccination, No Entry’ Into Federal Secretariat

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Un-vaccinated workers in the Federal Secretariat, Abuja, have been denied entry into the complex.

The Federal Government had slated December 1, 2021 as deadline for un-vaccinated workers to have access to in to public offices.

Federal workers were mandated to take the COVID-19 vaccination as they will need to show a negative PCR test or proof of receiving the COVID jab.

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Following the entrance restriction, a vaccination stand has been set up under a canopy close to the secretariat for those interested to take their COVID-19 vaccine.

The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria has requested the Federal Government to extend the deadline till March next year which fell on deaf ear.

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unvaccinated federal workers restricted
unvaccinated federal workers restricted

Meanwhile, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC ) on Wednesday, reported the first case of the new COVID -19 variant, OMICRON in the country.

 

The NCDC said the variant was found among travellers from South Africa after the genomic sequencing of positive cases from a routine day two test conducted at the National Reference Laboratory (NRL), Abuja.

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