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Orodata Science Launches Vaccine Tracker Towards Equitable Economic Recovery To Improve Access To Data
Orodata Science sets another significant milestone with the launch of its vaccine tracker, “Orodata Covid19 Vaccine Tracker” driven towards achieving equitable economic recovery by improving access to data. COVID-19 precipitated a global economic crisis, and even as wealthier nations are bouncing back, it is creating a great divergence between them and the rest of the…
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COVAX: How Nigeria Received Over 20 Million Doses In Two Years
On the night of Feb. 27, 2020, Nigeria reported its first case of COVID-19 in the country. The case was an Italian citizen who works in Nigeria and returned from Milan, Italy to Lagos, Nigeria on the 25th of February 2020. He was confirmed by the Virology Laboratory of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, part…
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80% of PHCs Can’t Store, Administer COVID-19 Vaccines
A non-governmental human right organization has revealed in its investigation that 80 percent of the PHCs were “substandard and unfit to store, and effectively administer COVID-19 vaccines.” The human rights organization said this after investigating the efficacy of 90 PHCs in 15 states. To strengthen and foster health sector accountability in Nigeria, the organization and…
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Nigeria Flags-off Second Phase Vaccination Exercise
Nigeria has begun the second phase of its vaccination exercise against the Covid-19 virus. The exercise is coming at a time where the country has begun to record increasing cases of the virus in the last one month. Speaking at the flag-off ceremony held at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Jabi Abuja, the Secretary to…
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Covid-19: Nigerian Health Centres Lack Capacity To Administer Vaccines
An estimate of 80 percent primary healthcare centres in 15 states of Nigeria lack the capacity to administer COVID-19 vaccines. This is according to a field research conducted by the Connected Development (CODE), a non-governmental organization tracking government’s expenditure.Q Nigeria received 3.92 million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines in March – the first batch of…
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UNICEF Orders 220 million COVAX For African Countries
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund has signed an agreement with Janssen Pharmaceutica NV to supply an additional 220 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson single dose COVID-19 vaccine to all 55-member states of the African Union by the end of 2022. This agreement would increase the total number of doses to 400…
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Vaccine: World Bank Gives $4bn to 51 Countries
The World Bank has stated that it has provided a fund of over $4 billion for the purchase and deployment of COVID-19 Vaccine to 51 countries– with over half in Africa. This was contained in a press statement released by the bank titled ‘World Bank financing for COVID-19 vaccine rollout exceeds $4bn for 50 countries’…
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Nigeria To Get 3.93 Million Doses Of Covax
Nigeria is expected to receive 3.92 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine from the COVAX facility between the end of July and early August. Meanwhile, the administration of the second dose of Oxford AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine in the country will also end by 25th June 2021. The Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency…
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Africa Needs 20 Million Vaccine Doses Now – WHO
The WHO has revealed Africa would need 20 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine within six weeks if those who have had their first shot are to get the second in time, the WHO said Thursday. Dr Matshidiso Moeti for the World Health Organization, Africa underlined the importance of respecting the recommended interval of eight to…
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Moderna To Supply Vaccines To The COVAX Programme
Moderna has announced a new supply agreement with Gavi for up to 500 Million Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna for COVAX days after the World Health Organization (WHO) announced emergency approval of the vaccine. Recall that vaccine rollout by the COVAX programme recently faced a dead end after the Indian government banned the export of…