German drugmaker, BioNTech, has announced plans to develop a Messenger RNA (mRNA) - based vaccine to prevent malaria. The company, which developed the United States’ first authorised COVID-19 vaccine with an American drugmaker, Pfizer, said it...
Pfizer and BioNTech have announced that they will start to manufacture their Covid-19 vaccine in South Africa in a move that could significantly increase the availability of doses across the continent next year. When fully operational,...
Scientists at the US Food and Drug Administration endorsed the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Moderna as safe and efficacious on Tuesday, one day after the first doses of a competing vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech...
Nigeria, on Tuesday, reported 3 deaths and 281 news cases after days of zero fatality. 7,101 samples were tested across the country. To date, 67,838 cases have been confirmed, 63,430 cases have been discharged and 1,176...
Three vaccine candidates have been announced so far. Pfizer/BioNTech the first to announce its results, followed a week later by Moderna, but that vaccine is still in trials, then the University of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine announced...
Pfizer and its partner BioNTech, on Friday, filed for emergency authorisation in the US of their Covid-19 vaccine. It will be the job of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to decide if the...
The impact of a new Covid-19 vaccine could return life in the world to normal by next winter, one of its creators has said. Prof Ugur Sahin, BioNTech co-founder, said the jab could halve transmission of...
Pfizer and its partner, the German company, BioNTech, yesterday announced preliminary results that suggested their vaccine can prevent more than 90% of people from getting Covid-19. They described it as a "great day for science...
President has expressed delight over the coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech. In a statement on Monday, Garba Shehu, senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, said there must be equitable access...