Not less than 160 million of Nigeria’s estimated 206 million people are currently at risk for yellow fever, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
According to the global health organization, this number represents about 25% of all Africans at risk for the disease.
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It did, however, confirm that the nation had immunized about 45 million people against the disease during the last two years of the coronavirus pandemic, nearly twice as many as against the pandemic’s raging outbreak.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) provided the estimated vaccination figure at the time of filming two documentaries for the WHO Africa region’s Eliminate Yellow Fever Epidemics (EYE) Strategy, according to a recent publication on the organization’s website.
According to reports, the EYE Strategy, a collaboration between the WHO, UNICEF, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, was established in response to Yellow Fever and designated Nigeria as a high-risk nation.
