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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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US Death Toll Drops Below 1,000 First Time in Months
The United States has recorded fewer than 1,000 deaths in a day from COVID-19, according to Johns Hopkins University. According to new data, in the last 24 hours, 749 people died from the coronavirus, far below the peak of 4,473 deaths recorded on January 12. The US is the country worst affected by the coronavirus…
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Antibodies From a Covid-19 Variant May Offer Cross-Protection
South African scientists are suggesting that the antibodies triggered by exposure to the country’s coronavirus variant might likely prevent infection by other variants of the virus. If the study is successfully peer-reviewed, it offers hope that COVID-19 vaccines based on the South African variant (501Y.V2) could protect against the multiple mutations circulating in different parts…
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Experts Warn Vaccinated Persons Must Still Wear Face Masks
Experts are saying transmission of the novel coronavirus is still possible as scientists do not know how long vaccine-induced immunity will last or transmission can occur within the window between doses. Despite the manufacturers of the COVID vaccine recommending a delay of no more than three weeks between the two required doses, the UK and…
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Interpol Seizes Fake Coronavirus Vaccines in China and South Africa
International police agency has revealed that 400 vials of vaccine doses were recovered from a warehouse in South Africa. The international police agency said in a statement on Wednesday that 400 vials, equivalent to about 2,400 doses, containing the fake vaccine were found at a warehouse in Germiston outside Johannesburg in South Africa, where officers…
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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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Facts On Nigeria’s N10.6 Billion Budget For Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution
A new document detailing a total of N10.6 Billion budgeted for the efficient distribution of the recently acquired Covid-19 vaccine has made the rounds in the news recently. The document titled, ‘Estimated Budget for States Rollout of COVID-19 Vaccines (end-to-end),’ was reportedly exclusively obtained by The Punch. While the document in question was not revealed,…
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New Research Finds Men More Likely To Die From Covid-19
According to a preliminary analysis by the World Health Organization (WHO) carried out in 28 African countries, women are slightly less likely to die from COVID-19 than men. The analysis which is based on gender-sensitive COVID-19 epidemiological data provided by countries revealed that women account for around 41 per cent of COVID-19 cases but with…
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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…