*Adhere to safety guidelines, Oyo CAN tells churches The Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19, has authorised vaccine booster against the pandemic for eligible Nigerians. Dr Faisal Shuaib, the Executive Director, National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), told the
Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja The Federal Government disclosed on Tuesday that it has received confirmation that about 3.92 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines will arrive Nigeria by the end of July or early August. Speaking while addressing journalists in Abuja, the Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) Faisal Shuaib,
China has administer 139.97 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines by April 4, 2021, said the country’s National Health Commission (NHC). China is working to ensure its vaccination efforts in major areas and key industries based on the overall plan of the country, inoculating the eligible population as widely as possible and progressing in stages, said […]
By Doosuur Iwambe Vaccine merchants are making huge foreign exchange on COVID-19 vaccines in Nigeria, experts in the nations health sector have revealed. Speaking during a telephone interview with the Daily Times, a public health expert and former National Publicity Secretary, Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria, AMSLN Dr Casmir Ifeanyi, said, the
Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja The World Health Organisation, WHO has said that about 16million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been released to Nigeria. The global health body while reacting to reports that it has barred Nigeria from accessing COVID-19 vaccines due to lack of adequate storage facility said, it has not disqualified any country in Africa […]
Tunde Opalana, Abuja The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has blamed the Nigeria’s reported exclusion, by the World Health Organization (WHO), from the list of nations to receive COVID-19 vaccines following on the inability of the Buhari administration to provide the vaccine storage requirement. Lamenting the alleged total failure of the APC-led administration, the party
Although none of the COVID-19 vaccines under development has proved its efficacy yet in clinical trials, at least 5.7 billion doses have been pre-ordered around the world. First shipments of a COVID-19 vaccine created by Western laboratories have often been snapped up by the United States. READ ALSO: COVID-19 vaccines now in phase 3 clinical […]
