Africa calls for donated vaccines with shelf life of 3 to 6 monthsÂ
Jan. 20, 2022 Africa’s top public health bodies on Thursday called for donated COVID-19 vaccines to come with a shelf life of three to six months so countries could plan…
COVAX reaches a milestone, delivers 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine dose
Jan. 17, 2022 A shipment of 1.1 million COVID-19 vaccines to Rwanda included the billionth dose supplied via COVAX, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said in a statement. WHO…
Poorer nations dump millions of close-to-expiry COVID-19 vaccines – UNICEF
Jan. 13, 2022 Poorer nations last month rejected more than 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines distributed by the global programme COVAX, mainly due to their rapid expiry date, a…
COVID-19 cases: ‘huge spike’ driven by Omicron variant – WHO
Jan. 13, 2022 …Over 15m cases recorded last week …Over 85% yet to receive a single dose of vaccine in Africa The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday said fuelled…
 COVID-19: We weren’t careless, expired vaccines had very short expiration date — NAFDAC DG
Dec. 29, 2021 Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), says the agency is working with international partners to ensure Nigeria gets…
Up to 1 million COVID vaccines expired in Nigeria last month
Dec. 8, 2021 Up to one million COVID-19 vaccines are estimated to have expired in Nigeria last month without being used, two sources told Reuters, one of the biggest single…
COVID shots are finally arriving but Africa can’t get them all into arms
Dec 6, 2021 When a group arrived at the Sekenani health clinic in rural Kenya for their COVID-19 vaccines recently, staff told them there were no doses left and that…
‘Extreme’ vaccine discrimination risks leaving Africa behind – Report
Dec. 6, 2021 Africa has little chance of overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic unless 70% of its population is vaccinated by end-2022, yet “extreme vaccine discrimination” is leaving the continent behind,…
FG has spent $29m to procure 40m J&J vaccines – Health Minister
Dec. 6, 2021 …Says Omicron has not been classified as deadly The Federal Government says it has spent at least $29 million to procure the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccines…
COVID-19 vaccines: Most donations to Africa have been ad hoc, provided with little notice, short shelf lives –Â Joint Statement
Nov. 29, 2021 Majority of the vaccine donations to Africa to-date have been ad hoc, provided with little notice and short shelf lives. This, according to a joint statement by…