COVID-19: AstraZeneca rakes in $275mn in sales from vaccine
April 30, 2021 British pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca reported on Friday $275 million (227 million euros) in sales from its Covid vaccine in the first three months of the year. It…
Nigeria To Receive 29.8 Million Doses Of J&J COVID-19 Vaccine
April 27, 2021 Nigeria is expecting about 29.8 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine, Dr. Faisal Shuaib said on Monday. Shuaib, the Executive Director of the…
COVID-19: WHO Rejects Proof Of Vaccination For International Travel
April 20, 2021 The World Health Organization’s, WHO, emergency committee said Monday it was against international travellers being required to have proof of vaccination, partly on grounds such a measure…
Africa CDC says cannot predict when second COVID-19 shots will arrive
April 16, 2021 Many Africans who have received their first COVID-19 vaccine do not know when they will get a second shot because deliveries are delayed, the continent’s top public…
Over 7,000 more persons take 1st dose of COVID-19 jab as total exceeds 1 million
April 16, 2021 The number of eligible people who have taken their first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in Nigeria has exceeded the one million mark. This was revealed…
UNICEF urges Nigerians to take second dose of COVID-19 vaccine
April 14, 2021 The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has urged those who received the first dose of Astrazeneca COVID-19 vaccine to take second dose for stronger immunity against the…
Less Than 2% Of World’s COVID-19 Vaccines Administered In Africa – WHO
April 8, 2021 Less than 2% of the 690 million COVID-19 vaccine doses administered to date globally have been in Africa, where most countries received vaccines only five weeks ago…
COVID-19: Why states were directed to halt vaccination halfway – FG
The Federal Government has explained why it asked all states administering the COVID-19 vaccine to stop the exercise the moment they used half of the doses allocated to them.Minister of…
Nigeria takes delivery of another 100,000 vaccines from India as PTF transitions to PSC
The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 will now operate as the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19. President Muhammadu Buhari gave the approval for the transitioning of the PTF…
COVID-19: Nigeria hopes to get 70 million J&J vaccines through AU
Nigeria hopes to receive up to 70 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine this year through the African Union (AU), its primary healthcare chief told Reuters, amid…