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Sales of Fake COVID-19 Vaccines Expand to Six Countries
Following a research by Kaspersky researchers, unverified COVID-19 vaccines including three major COVID-19 vaccines, Pfizer/BioNTech, AstraZeneca and Moderna, are beginning to make sales on darknet between $250 and $1,200 with crypto currency. According to the researchers, advertisements by sellers for these vaccines were found in 15 different marketplaces examined on the darknet with majority of…
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COVAX in Africa: Three W’African countries secure AstraZeneca vaccines
As part of the effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, reducing cases to the barest minimum, African countries, just like others, have begun to receive supplies of COVAX jabs into their country. There were speculations on the difficulty of African countries to secure doses after announcements of a vaccine came into limelight. According to an…
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3.9M COVAX in Nigeria: Ogun Gets 100,000 Doses
Of the 3.92 million doses of AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine received by the Federal Government, a total of 50,000 has been delivered to Ogun state. The governor, who received the vaccines at the Governor’s office, Oke Mosan, Abeokuta, after the arrival of the state team led by Commissioner of Health, Dr Tomi Coker said another batch…
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Rwanda Becomes First African Country To Receive Pfizer Vaccine
On Wednesday, February 3, 2020, Rwanda became the first African country to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine from the COVAX initiative. According to the Ministry of Health, a flight carrying 240,000 doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India landed at the Kigali International Airport in the morning hours of Wednesday…
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COVAX Ships First Batch Of Covid-19 Vaccine To Nigeria
On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, Nigeria received its first batch of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine, manufactured by the Serum Institute of India(SII) and shipped via the COVAX facility. As reported by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the United Nations(UN) system in Nigeria told reporters that the COVAX initiative had fulfilled its shipping of 3.94 million…
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COVAX Has Delivered Over 9 Million Doses Of COVID-19 Vaccines To Africa
As Covid-19 vaccination continues to thrive globally, the COVAX initiative has so far shown done commendably well in leading the largest vaccine procurement and supply operation in history. As of the time of this publication, COVAX has shipped 9,044,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines to African countries, reaching some of their target of 270 million doses…
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Covid-19: COVAX Delivers Its First Batch Of Vaccines To Ghana
According to new reports, Ghana has become the first country to receive coronavirus vaccines through the Covax vaccine-sharing initiative. The World Health Organization (WHO) through the COVAX initiative aims to deliver about two billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines globally, to ensure fair sharing of vaccines among all nations. Many rich nations were recently accused of…
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How Many People Have Been Vaccinated In The UK?
The British government has embarked on what can be described as the biggest vaccination programme in British history with its impressive Covid-19 vaccination rollout. Recall that Prime Minister, Boris Johnson had pledged to vaccinate everyone in the top four risk categories by mid-February which includes: Care home residents and workers People aged 80+ and frontline…
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BUA, CACOVID Battle Over Vaccine Donations
Leading food and infrastructure conglomerate, BUA, and the private sector-led Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) are currently at loggerheads following BUA’s announcement of the purchase of one million doses of Covid-19 vaccine for Nigeria. The CACOVID Point Of View The private sector-led coalition against COVID-19 (CACOVID) on Monday, February 9, 2020, opposed an earlier statement credited to…
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Fact-Check : WHO Did Not Disqualify Nigeria From Global Vaccine Bid
Contrary to the news making the rounds, The World Health Organisation (WHO) has not disqualified Nigeria from the global vaccine bid. According to Public Health Epidemiologist and WHO Representative, Kazadi Mulombo, Nigeria as a member state of the COVAX facility can not be disqualified from accessing an approved vaccine for their population. The Truth? Matshidiso…