Tag: COVID-19 vaccines

"We can only hope to get over that if we have our own manufacturing hub in Nigeria and that is ...

Lagos led in Thursday's tally to extend its lead as the most affected city by the virus in Nigeria.

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

''There is no diplomatic way to say it: a small group of countries that make and buy the majority of ...

The Tokyo Olympic Games are under threat of another postponement with the rise of new COVID-19 variants

Washington had already declared that it would be in favour of suspending intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines.

With the new cases, Nigeria has recorded a total of 164,912 infections as of April 27.

Nigeria has vaccinated over a million people so far.

A government official says people came out voluntarily for vaccination.

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

“Ideally, the cost for tests in travel portals should not cost more than $50 but some West African countries are ...

In early March, Nigeria received an initial 3.94 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines through COVAX.

An official had announced MTN’s donation of 7 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines to African countries.

An official says there have been no complaints of any side effect from those who have taken their jabs so ...

“Altogether 38 African countries have received more than 25 million COVID-19 vaccines and 30 have started vaccination campaigns."

The idea of universal human rights is fast becoming a ruse. Both “vaccine nationalism” and economic nationalism defy humanitarian logic.

An official said Anambra State received 78, 810 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines from the federal government.

”Private importation of COVID-19 vaccines has not been authorised due to reports of substandard falsified vaccines in circulation.''

The governors’ meeting will hold virtually.

''Many countries, including some African neighbours, have rolled out distribution plans for the vaccines they’ve procured. But the Nigerian government ...

The doses were part of the first phase of vaccines distributed by the federal government.

Governor Willie Obiano urged residents of the state to obtain immunisation forms and make themselves available for vaccination.

The Commissioner said that government had installed storage facilities (cold chain) across the 332 wards in the State.

The governor said he and his Deputy, Noimot Salako -Oyedele, would lead in taking the vaccines.

"Most governors have agreed to flag off on March 10 while the statewide rollout of COVID-19 vaccine will commence from ...