As part of efforts to fast track the coverage of the COVID-19 vaccination in Nigeria, the Federal Government has launched the SCALES 2.0 Strategy.
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The acronyms SCALES stands for service delivery, communication, accountability, logistics, electronic reporting, and supportive supervision for the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination. It was introduced in November 2021 by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency(NPHCDA) to rapidly ramp up COVID-19 vaccine coverage by expanding access to COVID-19 vaccines outside the health facility.
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The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire at the launch of “SCALES 2.0 Strategy With Use Single-Dose Johnson & Johnson Vaccine and Vaccination Site Finder“, pointed out that the SCALES strategy has proven to be quite effective in ramping up COVID-19 vaccination coverage but the proportion of fully vaccinated Nigerians is still very low, partly because Nigeria has been using two-dose vaccines.
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