Tag: Vaccine
Buhari recommends coronavirus vaccine for all Nigerians
President Muhammadu Buhari has recommended the Covid-19 vaccine to all eligible Nigerians.
The president gave his approval on Saturday after he was vaccinated alongside Vice...
103 million Nigerians to be vaccinated for COVID-19 – FG
The Director-General of the Budget Office, Ben Akabueze, said on Tuesday the Federal Government would vaccinate 103 million Nigerians or 50 percent of the...
Google launches $3 million fund to fight vaccine misinformation
The Google News Initiative on Tuesday launched a global open fund to fight misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, worth up to $3 million.
The “COVID-19 Vaccine...
Covid-19: ‘We are not importing vaccines, we would use local herbs’...
By Francis Ogwo
While most countries around the world are making frantic moves towards importing vaccines from world's manufacturing giants in the fight against the...
2021: COVID-19 and the race for a universal vaccine
In the second instalment of our end of the year review, Toby Prince takes a look at the rampaging coronavirus, its devastating effects and...
UK approves Oxford COVID-19 vaccine after daily record cases
Britain on December 30 became the first nation to approve the Oxford University-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
The United Kingdom government said that it has accepted a...
COVID-19: Terrible consequences ahead of African countries without vaccine – AU,...
By Aiyeku Timothy
The African Union Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) on Thursday warned African countries that they will be faced with...
COVID-19: UK approves Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine ahead of US, EU
By Aiyeku Timothy
The UK has approved the use of Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE as Covid-19 vaccine as it would be available in Britain...
Trump pressures Germany to cede coronavirus vaccine to the US ...
The Trump administration offered “large sums of money” to a German biopharmaceutical firm to move its research on a coronavirus vaccine to the US,...