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Vaccine inequity poses ‘significant risk’ to global economic recovery – UN report

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 […]
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COVID-19: India set to mass-produce vaccine — Modi

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 […]
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Covid-19: Don’t count on vaccine, US scientist warns

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
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No approved COVID-19 vaccine yet in Nigeria – WHO

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 […]
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FG warns there’s no vaccine for the Coronavirus

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 […]
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World’s First Malaria Vaccine Trial-WHO

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. […]
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Ebola Vaccine Trial Begins in Sierra Leone

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 […]