The international scheme to ensure equal access to Covid-19 vaccines is 140 million doses short because of India's continuing Covid crisis. The Serum Institute of India (SII), the largest single supplier to the Covax scheme, has...
The federal government has released N29.1 billion for the procurement of 29.588 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. This fund released to National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) is 52 per cent...
Lagos, Kano and Kaduna states lead with the highest number of the 1,133,325 people so far vaccinated for COVID-19 in Nigeria. The Oxford -AstraZeneca COVID vaccine facilitated through support from the COVAX facility to the federal...
The Federal Government on Tuesday took delivery of 3.9 million AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines promised the country. This is the first batch of the 16 million expected vaccines through the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) led COVAX facility. The...
Boss Mustapha, chairman of the presidential task force (PTF) and secretary to the government of the federation, says Nigeria will receive four million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on Tuesday. It is expected to come through...
G7 leaders have pledged to intensify co-operation on Covid-19 and increase their contribution to the Covax vaccine-sharing initiative. The Covax scheme is aiming to get at least 1.3bn vaccine doses to vulnerable populations worldwide in the...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has approved the emergency use listing (EUL) of AstraZeneca vaccine, also known as Covishield, manufactured under licence by Serum Institute of India. The agency explained...
After two days of recording below-100 new cases, Nigeria hit 1056 on Tuesday, with a worrisome 21 deaths. So, there are now 141,447 confirmed cases; 115755 recoveries and 1694 deaths. The 1056 new cases were reported...
Other highlights of the presidential task force (PTF) on COVID-19 briefing yesterday: Nigeria has kept abreast of global development and supports the call of WHO for fair and equitable distribution of vaccines, since covid19 is a...
The World Health Organisation, WHO has said that about 130 countries, with a total of 2.5 billion people, are yet to be administered with a single dose of Covid -19 vaccine. WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus...