Tag: vaccine

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has approved Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine for use in Nigeria. Mojisola Adeyeye, the director-general of NAFDAC, disclosed this during a…

South Africa is considering swapping or selling the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine against coronavirus, the health minister says. Plans to use it to vaccinate health workers have been put on hold after…

The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), says it is expecting the final confirmation for coronavirus vaccine from Covax Initiative backed by Gavi Vaccine Alliance, World Health Organisation and…

People aged over 70 will start getting vaccine invitation letters today as the programmer Twenty-four hour vaccination sites will be piloted in London before the end of January, the vaccines…

The government has banned flights from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde after the emergence of the mutations. The second of two new coronavirus variants from Brazil is likely to…

Stephen Godonu-  US pharma company Pfizer has informed President Donald Trump’s administration that it will not be able to provide a significant number of additional doses of its coronavirus vaccine…

Germany, once a beacon of hope in Europe’s coronavirus nightmare, logged its one millionth case on Friday, as questions emerged over just how much protection is offered by one of…

Stephen Godonu- The United States Mission to Nigeria has celebrated Dr Onyema Ogbuagu, for his role in the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. Ogbuagbu, who graduated from the University of Calabar…

A COVID-19 vaccine being developed by Moderna, a US company, has proved to be 95 percent effective against the infection.  Advertisement According to the BBC, early data from the company showed…

Stephen Godonu:  The Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, on Tuesday, disclosed that he was injected with COVID-19 trial vaccine produced by the…