By Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo The World Health Organisation (WHO) has ranked Nigeria’s COVID-19 response as the fourth-best in the world. WHO Country Representative, Dr Walter Mulombo, spoke at an event on the arrival of the first consignment of 177,600 doses of the Johnson and Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine in Abuja. Recall that about 1,173,132 doses of […]
The UN says vaccine inequality between countries and regions is posing a significant risk to an already uneven and fragile global economic recovery. The UN economic forecast, published on Tuesday, stated that while the outlook for global growth has improved, the ongoing impacts of the pandemic, as well as inadequate progress on vaccination in poorer […]
Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja The federal government is working with stakeholders to ensure that Nigerians benefit from a potent coronavirus vaccine once it is developed, the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, has said. Speaking during the presentation of the 2020 scorecard of the Ministry of Health to the public in Abuja on Monday, the minister […]
The federal government has urged those who looted medical storage facilities and isolation centres across the country to return all the vaccines and consumables they had carted away. The Chairman of Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, made this appeal during a media briefing on Monday, […]
By Sharon Isaalah The coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford has been suspended temporarily following the discovery of certain side effects on test subjects. According to Bloomberg, the pause, first reported by Stat on Tuesday, occurred due to a suspected serious adverse reaction in a single person participating in the trial in the […]
By Sharon Isaalah A Covid-19 vaccine developed and tested in Russia generated neutralizing antibodies in dozens of study subjects, and while the vaccine often caused side effects such as fever, those side effects were mostly mild, according to data published in the medical journal The Lancet. Russia drew criticism when it announced the world’s first […]
India prime minister Narendra Modi, on Saturday, in his Independence Day speech, said India is ready to mass-produce the COVID-19 vaccine when scientists give the go-ahead. Modi made the revelation while also launching a national project to roll out health identities for each citizen. READ ALSO: Coronavirus: 10 die drinking sanitiser after Indian state shuts […]
…To be unveiled to the public soon Nigerian Universities’ Scientists, under the aegis of COVID-19 Research Group, on Friday, announced the discovery of a vaccine for the prevention of Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Addressing a news conference on Friday at Adeleke University, Ede, in Osun State, Dr. Oladipo Kolawole, Leader of the team, said the vaccine […]
A top US scientist has said that people should not count on a Covid-19 vaccine being developed any time soon, as global infections passed 5 million after surges in Latin America, including Brazil, which has recorded nearly 20,000 new cases. William Haseltine, the groundbreaking cancer, HIV/AIDS and human genome projects researcher, has said the best approach to the pandemic […]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday insisted that there was no approved vaccine in Nigeria or any part of Africa for COVID-19 saying researches are still ongoing on the deadly viral disease. WHO Immunisation Team Lead, Dr Fiona Braka, spoke on the efforts of the world body on the reported vaccines for the deadly virus. Braka said COVID-19, being […]
A large majority of Americans would be reluctant to attend future sporting events unless a vaccine for the coronavirus is developed, a survey by Seton Hall University has found. With every major sport across North America in shutdown for the past month since the COVID-19 crisis erupted, professional leagues are already exploring the practicalities of […]
The federal government has cautioned Nigerians living in China to be wary of the coronavirus saying, there is no vaccine yet. Chairman Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, who issued the warning in a statement, said that the Nigerian mission in Beijing is in touch with Nigerians in Wuhan. According to the statement issued […]
Abuja – Dr Osagie Ehanire, Minister of Health, says Nigeria is contributing to research for the development of Lassa fever vaccine to proffer a lasting solution to the disease. Ehanire, who disclosed this at a news conference on Tuesday in Abuja, said Lassa fever was preventable and could be treated. He said that the disease […]
Owo (Ondo State) – The Chief Medical Director of Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Owo in Ondo State says it has started a process to develop a vaccine against Lassa fever. The Medical Director of the medical centre, Mr Liasu Ahmed, disclosed this on Tuesday in Owo during the centre’s annual ward round. Lassa fever, also […]
Mrs Mojisola Shotola is a Government trained traditional birth attendant (TBA) with over 40 years of experience and a force to be reckoned with, in the fight against polio and other vaccine preventable diseases in her community. According to Mrs. Shotola, she has mothers to deliver about eight to ten babies every month. “I help […]
In renewed efforts, not to leave any child needlessly exposed to vaccine-preventable diseases, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the authorities in Bayelsa State are seeing a marked improvement in immunization coverage in the State. This follows the adoption of innovative approaches to reach all children even those living along its hazardous creeks and remote […]
The WHO Regional Office for Africa said in a statement on Monday that Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi will take part in the pilot programme which will take off in 2018. According to the statement, the injectable vaccine, RTS,S, was developed to protect young children from the most deadly form of malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum. […]
With Ebola nearly stamped out in West Africa, vaccine trials will probably fail to provide enough useful data on how well they protect people against the deadly virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. Liberia was declared free from Ebola by the government and the WHO on Saturday after 42 days without a […]
The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S, in partnership with the Sierra Leone College of Medicine and Allied Health Services (COMAHS) and the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS), is now enrolling and vaccinating volunteers for the Sierra Leone Trial to Introduce a Vaccine against Ebola (STRIVE). This study will assess […]