Tag: COVAX

Mr Tomori said Africa is dangerously lagging in research and development.

The new donation by the Italian government is the second donation from foreign nations to Nigeria in the last five ...

Nigeria has so far received 67,973,250 doses of COVID-19 vaccines through various donations.

Mr Gates said the foundation’s work over the past 20 years has shown that early investment in research and development ...

This brings to nine the number of immunisations approved to fight the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Why are vaccines not flying as swiftly as travel restrictions?... As people of a highly interconnected world, we can do ...

Investment in COVID-19 vaccines have created new billionaires, available data has revealed.

The vaccines were received and stored at the country’s National Strategic Cold Store near the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in ...

US President Joe Biden’s proposal of a new global fund might just be the key to vaccine equity.

“News that COVID-19 vaccines administered in Nigeria are not approved by the UK are completely untrue,” Ms Laing said.

I doff my hat to Jeffrey Sachs, even if he is more accommodative of Africa's bad leadership. After all, African ...

The new date is to enable NAFDAC to complete its assessment and preparatory processes, NPHCDA director said.

With the latest statistics, NCDC said the country’s total infection figure has risen to 175,264 while the death toll has ...

The AstraZeneca and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines are expected through the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Assess Facility (COVAX) while the Jassen vaccines ...

There are increases in the delta variant recorded in all but one of WHO’s six regions.

About 1.3 billion COVID-19 vaccines have been administered worldwide but a large chunk is administered in developed countries leaving the ...

WHO says only 0.5 per cent of vaccines had reached low-income countries where frontline health workers and the elderly have ...

In this article, we review some of the information we know about the vaccines that are likely to be used ...

Saturday’s tally brings the total number of COVID-19 infections in the West African nation to 164,684.

Tuesday became the eighth consecutive day that the country recorded no death from the COVID-19 virus that has caused over ...

‘There is already a stark gap between vaccination programmes in different countries, with some yet to report a single dose.’

COVAX’s aim of delivering 2 billion doses to participating countries by the end of 2021 is threatened by chronic under-investment, ...

The region needs reforms in digitalisation, trade integration, competition, transparency and governance and climate-change mitigation.

Only three deaths have been reported from COVID-19 in Nigeria in nearly three weeks.