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What Is The Rave About The Valneva COVID-19 Vaccine?
French pharmaceutical company Valneva has recently joined the vaccine manufacturing ring with its vaccine they claim is different from the rest in the market. The Valneva vaccine, also known as VLA2001 is built to stimulate an immune response to the entire virus as opposed to targetting just the spike protein of the coronavirus, like its…
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Pfizer Produces First COVID-19 Antiviral Drug
Pharmaceutical giant, Pfizer has produced the first COVID-19 antiviral drug, reported to cut the risk of hospitalization or death from COVID by 89%, according to data from clinical trials. Pfizer’s pill known as Paxlovid would be taken orally to fight severe symptoms of the virus. The drug would be administered intravenously by a health care professional…
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COVID-19 Global Death Toll Tops 5 Million
A new report by John Hopkins University has tallied the total global death rate from Covid-19 at 5 million, less than two years into a crisis that has devastated the world. According to the report, the United States, Britain, Brazil and the European Union, which makes up for one-eighth of the world’s population account for…
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Private Hospitals To Charge N6,000 For COVID Vaccines In Lagos
Residents of Lagos, Nigeria would now be charged N6,000 to receive free Covid-19 vaccines from private health facilities in Lagos. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu announced the launch of the state’s mass vaccination campaign on Wednesday, October 27, 2021. The governor added that the fee was agreed on as an administrative fee for the private facilities to…
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Could Syringe Shortage Slow Down Vaccination Drive In Africa?
The United Nation’s fund for children, UNICEF, is predicting an “imminent shortfall” of up to 2.2 billion of the single-use syringes used for Covid-19 vaccination, a report that poses a huge problem for the vaccination drive in Africa. As vaccines begin to flood the continent, the WHO shared that the shortage of both single-use syringes…
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African Union To Purchase 110 Million Moderna COVID Vaccines
Africa is soon to receive up to 110 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna Inc t brokered in part by the White House and the African Union. The AU’s doses will be delivered over the coming months, with 15 million arriving before the end of the year, 35 million in the first quarter of…
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Kenya Lifts COVID Curfew As Infections Ease
President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced the immediate lifting of a nationwide dusk-to-dawn curfew in force since March 2020 following spiking covid-19 infection rates. The East African nation, which has a population of 54 million, has reported 252,199 cases of COVID-19 and 5,233 deaths but vaccination rates remain low, with only 4.6 percent of the adult…
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Nigeria Moves To Bar Unvaccinated Workers From December 1
Boss Mustapha, the Chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee PSC on COVID-19, has confirmed the government’s new move to ban workers who fail to show proof of their COVID-19 vaccination from accessing their offices as of December 1. Federal government employees would now be required to show their vaccination card or a Polymerase Chain Reaction…
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Covid-19: Congo Suspends Wedding Ceremonies For 45 Days
In a bid to control the spread of the coronavirus, Congolese authorities have barred all wedding ceremonies in the country for 45 days. “Civil, religious, customary marriage and dowry ceremonies are suspended for 45 days,” Communication Minister Thierry Moungalla said on public television. According to the national coordination of the fight against Covid-19 in Congo,…
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Covid-19 Pandemic And Its Effects On Global Hunger
A recent report by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) shared that the pandemic has made the world more vulnerable to food insecurity, pushing the aim to eradicate global hunger by 2030 further down the road. Due to the dramatic worsening of world hunger in 2020, the world agency reports that around a tenth…