Buhari: We Can Defeat COVID-19 as We Defeated Wild Polio - THISDAYLIVE

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday in Abuja said African countries could defeat COVID-19 pandemic the same way it defeated the wild Polio virus on the continent.

‘‘I recall that shortly after assuming office in May 2015, I made a pledge to Nigerians that I would not bequeath a polio-endemic country to my successor. According to him, the same skills and tools used to crush polio are being used to fight COVID-19 and the multi-country outbreaks of Circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Viruses.

‘‘This will require maintaining the highest quality of surveillance and sustaining population immunity through increasing routine immunisation coverage and supplemental immunisation activities.

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