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What To Know About The New COVID Strain Found In South Africa?
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has announced the detection of a new Covid-19 strain in South Africa with one of the highest number of mutations. The institute said 22 positive cases of the new variant have been recorded in the country following genomic sequencing. While South Africa’s Health Minister Joe Phaahla said the variant…
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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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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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Algeria Begins Production Of Covid-19 Vaccines
Algeria in partnership with Chinese firm Sinovac has begun the production of covid-19 vaccines, with production expected to be eight million doses a month and 96 million doses each year thereafter. The production line was inaugurated at a ceremony attended by Algerian Prime Minister Ayman Benabderrahmane and Chinese Ambassador to Algeria Li Lianhe, at the…
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Nigeria Received Over 9 million COVID-19 Vaccine In 6 Months
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 Vaccine. A total of 5,338,640 doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was given within the period; 4,000,080 Morderna doses; 177,600 doses…
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The Struggle For Covid-19 Vaccines In Uganda
Uganda’s struggle to access vaccines to reach its target of inoculating 22 million people seems to be at no immediate end as the world’s rich nations continue to hold onto vaccine doses. The country has only received some 2 million doses of AstraZeneca’s vaccine and 300,000 doses of the Chinese-developed Sinovac shot since inoculation began…
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Covid-19: Nigerian Health Centres Lack Capacity To Administer Vaccines
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 government’s expenditure.Q Nigeria received 3.92 million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines in March – the first batch of…
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America Donates 4 Million Doses Of Covid-19 Vaccine To Nigeria
Nigeria would receive 4 million doses of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine from the United States of America, according to White House officials. The US government announced it had on Wednesday shipped nearly 10 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to two of the most populous African countries – Nigeria and South Africa – as the continent…
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Buhari Signs 2021 Supplementary Budget For Covid-19 and Security
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the 2021 supplementary budget of N982.7 billion into law on Monday, July 26, 2021. Mr Umar El-Yakub, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters, disclosed this to State House correspondents after he met with the President on Monday in Abuja, Nigeria The 2021 Supplementary Appropriation Act…
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Coronavirus: Ghana In Dire Need Of Vaccines
According to official figures from Ghana Health Services, three hundred ninety-six thousand seven hundred fifty-nine (396,759) Ghanaian residents have received both doses of the AstraZeneca Coronavirus vaccine, making up only 1.3% of the nation’s population of 30 million. The Director-General of the GHS, Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye on Sunday, July 4, 2021, announced that as of…