{"id":4663,"date":"2021-04-08T13:49:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T13:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/?p=4663"},"modified":"2021-04-08T13:49:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T13:49:33","slug":"kogi-government-inaugurates-research-team-to-monitor-investigate-effect-adverse-reactions-and-level-of-tolerance-of-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/kogi-government-inaugurates-research-team-to-monitor-investigate-effect-adverse-reactions-and-level-of-tolerance-of-covid-19-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Kogi Government Inaugurates Research Team to Monitor, Investigate Effect, Adverse Reactions and Level of Tolerance of COVID-19 Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Stephen Adeleye<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Kogi State Government has inaugurated the State Research Team, to monitor and investigate the effect, adverse reactions and level of tolerance of COVID-19 Vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The State’s Commissioner for Health, Dr Saka Haruna Audu, who inaugurated the research team shortly after the flag-off of COVID-19 vaccination in Lokoja, said the team would carry out research on some few areas of attention regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Audu noted that the team members, who are specialists drawn from various profession in the health sector, would investigate reasons why Kogi State had been relatively spared from the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that the team would also monitor the utilisation of COVID-19 vaccines while also looking at the adverse reactions that might follow the vaccination exercise, and come up with a report on that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to him, even though there is Federal agency that is already doing that, but for us as a state, health is on the concurrent list, and it is part of our resolves to ensure that the people of Kogi are safe and their well-being is paramount to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Commissioner added that the other area where the team would work on, was the usefulness of the Hydroxyl Chloroquine, Zinc and the Mectizan, and make recommendations that could positively affect Kogi State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He stressed that the State had been very proactive, and was the first state to bring a novel idea on the COVID-19 Self Assessment App, and also demonstrated the usefulness of Rapid Test Kits for quick assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n