Tag: Covid-19 vaccine
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UNICEF Launches Campaign to Boost COVID-19 Vaccinations in Africa
UNICEF on Wednesday started an eight-week campaign to help boost COVID-19 vaccinations across Africa. UNICEF said the first-ever U-Report Challenge which came a week after COVAX delivered its billionth dose in Rwanda, called on all 13.3 million U-Reporters in Africa to help get vaccines to the unvaccinated. A statement issued in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi…
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COVID-19: WHO Expresses Hope Worst of Omicron Wave is Over
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has expressed optimism that the worst of the latest wave of COVID-19 is over, in spite of the spread of the Omicron variant across the world. Omicron continues to sweep the world, but cases seem to have peaked in some countries, which gives the UN health agency hope that the…
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WHO Approves Two New COVID-19 Treatments – Baricitinib & Sotrovimab
The World Health Organization (WHO) gave the nod to two new COVID-19 treatments on Friday, 14 September. The news comes as Omicron cases have led to a spike in infections across the world. The WHO predicts that half of Europe will be infected with the virus by March. The WHO added that the arthritis drug…
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COVID-19 Vaccine: Nigeria Destroys Over 1 Million Expired Doses
The Federal Government of Nigeria on Wednesday, destroyed over a million COVID-19 Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines after they have passed the expiry date. The Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr Faisal Shuaib, at Gosa Dumpsite, 2km away from Idu Railway Station, FCT Abuja, said that Nigeria had successfully withdrawn about 1,066,214, doses…
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COVID-19: FG to begin administration of Booster Shots Dec 10
Dr Faisal Shuaib, Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, NPHDA, revealed that the Federal Government is set to begin the administration of Covid-19 booster shots tomorrow, December 10 2021. He made this statement during the flag-off of the mass vaccination campaigns for Internally Displaced Persons in Abuja. According to Shuaib, the Federal…
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COVID-19: 2.5 million US donated Vaccine doses arrive Nigeria
2.5 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine has arrived in Abuja, Nigeria on Thursday from the United States. The US Embassy in Abuja made the announcement today. According to the Embassy, the National Primary Health Care Development Agency received the vaccines and ensured that they were taken to cold storage in preparation for distribution to…
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Fake Covid vaccine certificate: Husband kills self, wife, their three young girls
A man has killed himself, his wife and three young girls after he faked a Covid-19 vaccine certificate and feared his children would be taken away when it was discovered. Police found two adults, both 40, and three children aged four, eight and 10 dead from gunshot wounds in a family home in Koenigs Wusterhausen…
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COVID-19: Mixing Pfizer, AstraZeneca with Moderna gives better immune response – UK study
A major British study into mixing COVID-19 vaccines has found that people had a better immune response when they received the first dose of AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech shots followed by Moderna nine weeks later, according to the results on Monday. “We found a really good immune response across the board…, in fact, higher than the…
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South Africa detects new Covid-19 Variant
Scientists in South Africa said Thursday they had detected a new Covid-19 variant with multiple mutations, blaming it for a surge in infection numbers. “Unfortunately we have detected a new variant which is a reason for concern in South Africa,” virologist Tulio de Oliveira told a hastily-called news conference. The variant, which goes by the…
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Nigeria, Cuba to partner on vaccine production, biotechnology development —Minister
The Honourable Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu has said that Nigeria and the Republic of Cuba will join forces for biotechnology development and the production of vaccines and other medicines. The Minister said this when received the Cuban Ambassador to Nigeria, Clara Polido-Escandell, in his office in Abuja on Monday. This…