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Spain Imposes New Travel Ban On UK Tourists Till After Summer
Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has ordered a new travel ban that restricts British tourists from holidaying in Spain until the end of summer, when the majority of the population has been vaccinated. This ban comes as the Spanish Health Ministry reported 41,576 new coronavirus cases, the highest number registered in a 24-hour period since…
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Nigeria To Receive Covid-19 Vaccines By February
The Nigerian Governor’s Forum in a communique on Thursday with Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Chair of the Board of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GOVI) revealed the country would receive its first batch of Covid-19 vaccines by February. Chairman of the forum, Kayode Fayemi, revealed that there is an arrangement for the World Health…
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Canada Slows Vaccination Over Delayed Delivery From Pfizer
Federal officials have revealed that only half of Canada’s promised COVID-19 vaccine doses by Pfizer-BioNTech will arrive in the next month as a result of production issues in Belgium. Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, has expressed concerns over the delay saying the province’s strategy for the two-dose regime depends on steady shipments even though the Prime…
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Healthcare Expert Cautions FG against Politicizing COVID-19 Vaccines Distribution
Dr Rekevwe Ugwumba, a former consultant to the Senate Committee on Health has called on the government to avoid politics with the vaccination sharing formula across states in Nigeria, stressing that the process must be based on data and science made available to the general public. Ugwumba expressed her concerns via an interview with THISDAY…
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WHO Calls For Equitable Access To Covid-19 Vaccines
Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization has expressed concern over the unequal distribution of vaccines, especially to health workers and the elderly in low-income countries. According to Ghebreyesus, more than 39 million doses of vaccines have been administered in at least 49 higher-income countries, whereas, only 25 doses have been distributed in…
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Vaccines Do Not Contain DNA Altering Microchips – PTF
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), have addressed the speculation that the expected COVID-19 vaccines would contain microchips that would alter human genetic information. Dr. Faisal Shuaib, the Executive Director for the agency gave the assurance at the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 national briefing in Abuja on Monday, January 8. Recall that Nigeria…
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Nigerian States Lament Over Insubstantial Vaccine Distribution
State governors in Nigeria are calling on the Federal government to increase the number of vaccines allocated to their states. Seyi Makinde, Governor of Oyo state, told the media that the 1,848 doses of COVID-19 vaccine allocated to the state were insufficient, to say the least. According to the sharing formula released by the National…
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Is Africa Failing In The Race For Covid-19 Vaccines?
In the last quarter of 2020, African countries were signing up with the rest of the world to secure at least 220 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines for the continent as the race to find safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines kicked-off. While eight countries in Africa had agreed to self-finance their vaccine doses through the…
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Nigeria To Distribute Vaccine Based On Rate Of Infection
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency, (NPHCDA) of Nigeria has announced that its criterion for Covid-19 vaccination would be determined by the rate of infection in each state of the country. The announcement was made via the agency’s verified website on Saturday alongside a publication of the latest infection rates for the disease by…
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Covid-19 Vaccine: COVAX
At the onset of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, it became evident that the world doesn’t only need a vaccine, but it is also crucial that everyone in the world has access to the vaccine; this prompted the global leaders to find a solution to this, hence, the invention of COVAX. COVAX was launched in April…