The donation was in line with its unconditional defence of fair, equitable, and universal access to vaccines against COVID-19 Altogether, the EU and EU countries had donated 30m vaccines to Nigeria so far EDITOR’S PICK Again, EFCC Storms Okorocha’s Residence To Arrest Him [PHOTOS] EFCC Re-arraigns Dasuki, Yuguda, Others Over N23.3bn Fraud Okorocha Home Invasion: … Read more
The vaccines are planned to be distributed to over 3,000 health facilities across all 36 states and FCT-Abuja EKO HOT BLOG reports that the United States has announced the donation of 2.5 million Pfizer vaccine doses to Nigeria. This was disclosed in a statement by the U.S Embassy on Thursday. According to the statement, the … Read more
…Nigeria has utilised most of the over 10 million short-shelf-life doses of COVID-19 vaccines so far supplied to it… EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Federal Government has began rejecting COVID-19 vaccines with short shelf life or those that cannot be delivered on time. Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, said this while reacting to … Read more
The President said the pledges should be fulfilled in a timely manner… EKO HOT BLOG reports that President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday in France, urged world leaders and global health institutions to follow a regime of enabling access to the COVID-19 vaccines, admonishing that sidelining countries in terms of reach will undermine the entire effort … Read more
…the Nigerian Government had received millions of doses of vaccines by different manufacturers… The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, has debunked claims that the United Kingdom does not approve of the COVID-19 vaccines used in the country. In previous months, the Nigerian Government has received millions of doses of vaccines by different manufacturers … Read more
Executive Director of the NPHCDA said the vaccines will be deployed immediately, with priority on those who already took the first jab. The Nigerian government has received 699,760 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, donated by the United Kingdom. Acting British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Gill Atkinson, said the donation is part of the 80 … Read more
Nigeria has run out of COVID-19 vaccines after an initial four million doses of AstraZeneca… The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has announced that Nigeria will receive about 4.8 million doses of Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines on Monday. Executive Director of NPHCDA , Dr. Faisal Shuaib, in a memo issued to pressmen in Abuja … Read more
Shuaib said the AstraZeneca and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines are expected through the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Assess Facility (COVAX) The federal government has disclosed that it is expecting 41,282,770 doses of COVID-19 vaccines by the end of September 2021. Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Faisal Shuaib, disclosed at a briefing … Read more
The World Health Organization estimates at least 11 billion doses are needed to stand a chance of beating the virus. Leaders of the major industrial nations have pledged one billion Covid vaccine doses to poor countries as a “big step towards vaccinating the world”, Boris Johnson has said. At the end of the G7 summit … Read more
… WHO regional director said Africa had been affected by the happenings in India The World Health Organisation has intimated Nigeria and some other African countries on delays in the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines. The WHO Africa Regional Director, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, said this during a press conference with journalists. She, however, said Guinea, Guinea … Read more
Vaccines, COVAX Doses UN Chief UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, on Tuesday, said 26 African countries had received 15 million COVID-19 doses under the COVAX facility as of March 21. Guterres said during a virtual meeting with the African Group at the UN that he was “deeply concerned” that many poor countries had not received a … Read more
Nigeria received, 72 hours ago, its first batch of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines from COVAX Preparations are ongoing in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, ahead of the commencement of the COVID-19 vaccination in Nigeria. The programme is scheduled to kick off at the National Hospital in Abuja (today), where the frontline health workers there will … Read more
The world’s poorest countries can expect to start receiving their first Covid-19 vaccine doses between the end of January and mid-February, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. Vaccination is already under way in some of the world’s wealthiest nations, including the United States, Britain, European Union countries and Canada. AFP reports that Covax, … Read more