Tag: Faisal Shuaib

Mr Buhari had taken his first jab of the vaccine on March 6 and the second jab on May 29.

The Mastercard Foundation has promised to fund the purchase of 57 million doses of Johnson and Johnson vaccines, and approximately ...

"What this simply means is that government employees who are yet to be vaccinated will find a vaccination site around ...

Each state will receive N18.2 billion to help them meet their financial obligations, ''especially the previous budget support facility due ...

Mr Shuaib said the government has adequate doses of vaccines in store to cover a large percentage of the population.

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

Only 4.2 per cent of the 111,776,503 eligible populations have been vaccinated.

The health minister opines that over 90 per cent of deaths recorded from COVID-19 in Nigeria are from unvaccinated persons.

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

Arrangements have been made for corporate vaccination of eligible staff of Government Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs), government said.

Before the commencement of COVID-19 vaccination, the government had set an ambitious goal of vaccinating 40 per cent of its ...

Shuaib assured Nigerians that all vaccines certified by NAFDAC were highly effective against the virus, including the ravaging delta variant.

These vaccines are safe and effective and will be the game-changer, a WHO official said.

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

The 407 new cases have raised Nigeria’s total infection to 174,315.

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

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

This the official said was approximately 88 per cent of the total COVID-19 vaccine stock in the country.

We now have information that Nigeria will get 3.92m doses of Oxford/Astrazeneca by end of July or early August

A total of 10,027 cases of mild AEFI have been reported as of May 30, 2021

Nigeria has continued to report low COVID-19 cases since February.

Lagos again took the lead with 27 new cases and followed by Rivers with 14 new cases.

The new cases have increased the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 166,098 with the new figure ...