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  The Federal Government has ranked Nasarawa State as the best-performing state in the COVID-19 mass vaccination campaign. The National Primary Health Care Development Board made this known, on Thursday, at the COVID-19 performance review meeting held in Abuja. The NPHCDA also said Nasarawa State has constructed 19 new facilities and renovated 90 health facilities. The PUNCH reports that as of December 13, no fewer than 60,405,071 of the total eligible persons targeted for COVID-19 vaccination have been fully vaccinated while 12,370,205 of total eligible persons targeted for COVID-19 vaccination have been partially vaccinated. The progress report of vaccination in the country shows that as of November, the top five performing states in COVID-19 vaccination are Nasarawa, Jigawa, Osun, Kaduna, and Kano. The NPHCDA said Nasarawa state represents all that is needed in terms of effort to build resilient primary health care; the effort that traverses programmatic, infrastructural, workfo...