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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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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…