FCT minister narrates COVID-19 experience

Takes booster shot The Minister of the FCT, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, has called on residents of the FCT to take the booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccine, as he described his unpleasant encounter with the disease. In his message to residents of the territory after taking his booster shot on Friday, the minister said […]

• Takes booster shot

The Minister of the FCT, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, has called on residents of the FCT to take the booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccine, as he described his unpleasant encounter with the disease.

In his message to residents of the territory after taking his booster shot on Friday, the minister said “I thank God Almighty that I took the first and second doses of the COVID vaccine, because on the 31st of December 2021, I was tested but came out positive for COVID-19 and although I was told it was mild, I know what I experienced.

“Although I was not hospitalized, I was quarantined in my residence for three weeks because subsequently, even after taking the medication, I tested positive twice. It was the third time that I got a negative result. If I had not taken the first and second doses, probably what has happened to many of my dear ones would have happened to me,” he added.

Describing his experience further, Malam Bello said, “I tell you, even the mildness of the disease was something else because it hits you in many directions. 

“Aside of the sore throat, there is the headaches and all the weakness you get especially in your joints. 

“I had to change my course of medicine after the first 10 days.”

Commenting on the other effects of the disease, the minister said “for three weeks, I was not productive. I didn’t go out of the house, I never had a chance to do my work and the multiplier effect was tremendous.”