On the night of Feb. 27, 2020, Nigeria reported its first case of COVID-19 in the country. The case was an Italian citizen who works in Nigeria and returned from Milan, Italy to Lagos, Nigeria on the 25Read More
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Between March and August, Nigeria has received a total of 9,916,320 doses of Covid-19 vaccines, Twentyten Daily tracked. Within this period, Nigeria received four types of vaccine; Oxford-AstraZeneca, Mordena Vaccine, Johnson and Johnson and Covishield COVID-19 Read More
Tanzania would receive $567m from the International Monetary Fund for emergency support to finance a COVID-19 vaccination campaign and meet the health and social costs of the pandemic, according to an IMF statement. The IMF Read More
An estimate of 80 percent primary healthcare centres in 15 states of Nigeria lack the capacity to administer COVID-19 vaccines. This is according to a field research conducted by the Connected Development (CODE), a non-governmental organization tracking Read More
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has approved the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine for immediate emergency use in Nigeria. The announcement was made in a statement Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
The Federal Government has said that no fewer than 122,410 people have received the AstraZeneca vaccine. While giving updates on the ongoing vaccination across the country, the Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Read More
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency has disclosed that over 50 percent of Nigerians have admitted that they will take the Covid-19 vaccines. The agency compared the result to it’s earlier studies which showed Read More
About nine countries have suspended the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine after reports of blood clots. The nine countries—Norway, Iceland, Austria, Estonia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Italy, Latvia and Denmark have temporarily suspended use of Read More
