Human clinical trials have started for an experimental HIV vaccine that uses the same kind of mRNA technology found in Moderna’s successful COVID-19 vaccine, the drug company has announced. The company was quoted in a statement...
The United Kingdom has said fully vaccinated travellers from Nigeria to England will not need to take a pre-departure test, undertake a day 8 test or self-isolate for 10 days as previously required. The new policy...
Nigeria has received four million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from the United States as it steps up efforts to battle a third wave of infections. The doses, which arrived on two planes on Sunday,...
Nigeria recorded a surge in infections and deaths yesterday with 535 new cases in 18 states and 5 deaths. Lagos and Akwa Ibom states were leading contributors to the new cases. There are now 172263 confirmed,...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has announced the approval of Moderna, AstraZeneca and conditional approval of Sputnik V from Russia for emergency use. Director General of NAFDAC, Professor Mojisola Adeyeye,...
At 154, new infections in Nigeria remained high on Tuesday, with Lagos driving the spike. However, there were zero deaths. So far, there are 168867 confirmed cases, 164623 recoveries and 2125 deaths. The 154 new cases were...
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...
Moderna has filled for US and European emergency regulatory approval of its coronavirus vaccine for widespread use. Regulators will look at trial data for the mRNA vaccine and decide if it is safe and effective enough...