Tag: COVAX

No fewer than 1.13 million shots of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines have been administered across the 36 States of the Federation and the FCT. The National Primary Health Care Development Agency…

The African Vaccine Acquisition Trust Team (AVATT) has signed an agreement with Johnson & Johnson for 400 million doses of its single-shot COVID-19 vaccine. The agreement entails that 55 member…

The world’s first and only national-scale drone delivery service, Zipline, today began the delivery of COVID-19 vaccines to selected health facilities within its service area in Ghana. This makes Ghana…

The Edo State Government says it has received doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines from the Federal Government. This was contained in a statement on Wednesday titled, ‘Edo receives doses…

The Minister of State for Health, Olorunnimbe Mamora, has said COVID-19 vaccination will not be mandatory in Nigeria, adding that nobody will be forced to take any vaccine. Nigeria yesterday…

Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo on Monday became the world’s first recipient of a coronavirus vaccine from Covax, a global scheme to procure and distribute inoculations for free for poorer countries.…

The Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine proved 94 percent effective in a huge real-world study published Wednesday that involved 1.2 million people in Israel, confirming the power of mass immunization campaigns to…

Ghana is scheduled to receive Wednesday the first shipment of Covid-19 vaccines from Covax, a World Health Organization-backed effort to procure and distribute inoculations for free to poor countries. “These…

The World Health Organization in Abuja on Saturday said it had not disqualified any African country from accessing COVID – 19 vaccines through the COVAX facility. The organization said while…

COVAX, the global alliance against COVID-19, has donated a total of 16,008,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Nigeria. In a distribution forecast published on Wednesday, the coalition said the AstraZaneca/Oxford vaccine doses…