Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja The number of eligible people who have taken their first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in Nigeria has exceeded the one million mark. The National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA Dr. Faisal Shuaib, who was giving an update on the vaccination exercise across the country said that at least 1,051,096 […]
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) will present its conclusions on a potential link between blood clots and AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine later on Wednesday. The agency started investigating a potential link after reports of blood clots emerged in several countries, with some researchers having found young women to be at particular risk of thrombosis, a potentially […]
Austrian authorities have suspended inoculations with a batch of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine as a precaution. This was while investigating the death of one person and the illness of another after the shots, a health agency said on Sunday, March 7. “The Federal Office for Safety in Health Care (BASG) has received two reports in a […]
Doosuur iwambe and Sharon Isaalah National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has approved the use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in Nigeria. Speaking during a briefing on Thursday, the Director-General of NAFDAC, Dr. Mojisola Adeyeye, said that the vaccine can be stored at 2 to 8-degree centigrade. She also disclosed that […]
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