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Johnson & Johnson Reports $100M In COVID Vaccine Sales
Johnson & Johnson has exceeded it’s quarterly earning expectations as the pharmaceutical company reportedly earned $100m in sales of its COVID-19 vaccine. The company had previously said the vaccine will be available on a not-for-profit basis until the end of the pandemic, however, their forecast was tightened for adjusted profit this year, suggesting it was…
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2021 Week 15: Covid-19 Cases Consecutively Drops
The total cases of COVID-19 recorded in the fifteenth week of 2021 have dropped to 499 against the over 600 cases recorded in the previous week. On average, Nigeria had 71.3 cases reported daily in the fifteenth week. According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Nigeria reported 71 cases of COVID-19 on Friday, 9th of…
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2021 Week 14: Covid-19 Cases Drop Below 600
Nigeria, in the fourteen week of 2021, recorded a total of 584 cases of COVID-19. On average, the country had over 83.4 daily records of cases between April 2nd and April 8th, 2021. According to Nigerian Center for Disease Control, the country had recorded a total number of 66 on Friday, 2nd of April. This,…
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Covid-19: Nigeria Reaches One Million Mark in Vaccinations
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has announced that over a million people have received their first doses of the Covid-19 vaccine. Vaccination in Nigeria kicked off on March 5, 2021, with the agency announcing its intent to vaccinate up to 70 percent of the nation’s population. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) had…
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Facts About The South African Coronavirus Variant
First detected in South Africa, the B.1.351 of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has spread to dozens of countries around the world. Fact Check The B.1.351 is not a different virus. As the SARS-CoV-2 virus spreads around the world, it constantly mutates which leads to the emergence of new strains. The B.1.351 is a variant of the coronavirus.…
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Saudi Arabia To Allow Only Vaccinated Pilgrims To Mecca
The Ramadan period brings a large number of worshippers from all over the world to Mecca to perform the year-round umrah. In March 2020, the Saudi Arabia authorities shut their doors to pilgrims as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic but only resumed at intervals at the beginning of October under strict precautionary measures. Initially,…
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Haiti Yet To Receive Coronavirus Vaccines
Over a year since the Coronavirus hit the world, countries over the world have joined in the vaccination race to win the war against the virus. Unfortunately, it would seem that the nation of Haiti might have been forgotten as new reports claim the country has yet to receive a single dose of the life-saving…
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Malawi To Destroy Over 16,000 Expired Covid-19 Vaccine Doses
Malawi’s health minister, Charles Mwansambo has announced the ministry would be destroying 16,000 Covid-19 jabs that have reached their expiration date after arriving in the country three weeks ago. Malawi has received a total of 530,000 doses via the Covax program, the Indian government, and the AU, all of which are AstraZeneca vaccine, however, only 46%…
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Congo Launches Vaccination Campaign Amidst Vaccine Distrust
The Democratic Republic of Congo has launched an elaborate vaccination campaign aimed at dispelling doubts and suspicions about the AstraZeneca vaccine. Health Minister Eteni Longondo, who was among the first to receive an injection at the University of Kinshasa’s Faculty of Medicine said the vaccine posed no medical or spiritual dangers to people who take…
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COVID-19 Cases, Deaths Increase After 780m Vaccine Doses Administered
The Director-General of the World Health Organisation, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, has raised concerns over increasing cases of deaths and confirmed cases of COVID-19 across the globe. He noted that the increasing figures were being recorded despite 780 million doses of vaccine being administered globally. Ghebreyesus spoke at a media briefing on COVID-19 said that the…