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3.9M COVAX in Nigeria: Ogun Gets 100,000 Doses
Of the 3.92 million doses of AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine received by the Federal Government, a total of 50,000 has been delivered to Ogun state. The governor, who received the vaccines at the Governor’s office, Oke Mosan, Abeokuta, after the arrival of the state team led by Commissioner of Health, Dr Tomi Coker said another batch…
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Facts On Nigeria’s N10.6 Billion Budget For Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution
A new document detailing a total of N10.6 Billion budgeted for the efficient distribution of the recently acquired Covid-19 vaccine has made the rounds in the news recently. The document titled, ‘Estimated Budget for States Rollout of COVID-19 Vaccines (end-to-end),’ was reportedly exclusively obtained by The Punch. While the document in question was not revealed,…
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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…
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COVAX Has Delivered Over 9 Million Doses Of COVID-19 Vaccines To Africa
As Covid-19 vaccination continues to thrive globally, the COVAX initiative has so far shown done commendably well in leading the largest vaccine procurement and supply operation in history. As of the time of this publication, COVAX has shipped 9,044,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines to African countries, reaching some of their target of 270 million doses…
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Covid-19: Comparing Vaccination in Africa To The Rest Of The World
There has been global competition for the roll out of Covid-19 vaccines, and African countries have generally not been as successful as richer countries. World Health Organization (WHO) regional director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti, has expressed sadness over the unfair distribution of vaccines especially to poor countries who are unable to acquire enough vaccines for…
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Covid-19: COVAX Delivers Its First Batch Of Vaccines To Ghana
According to new reports, Ghana has become the first country to receive coronavirus vaccines through the Covax vaccine-sharing initiative. The World Health Organization (WHO) through the COVAX initiative aims to deliver about two billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines globally, to ensure fair sharing of vaccines among all nations. Many rich nations were recently accused of…
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Covid-19: India Records 12,881 New Cases, Recovery Rate At 97.32%
Despite’s India’s nationwide lockdown, the tally of COVID-19 cases have risen to 1,09,50,201 with 12,881 new infections being reported in a day. The COVID-19 case fatality rate has dropped to 1.42 percent, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease increased to 1,06,56,845 which translates to a national COVID-19 recovery rate of…
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WTO DG Warns Against Vaccine Nationalism
World Trade Organization’s new Director-General, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has said vaccine protectionism must be stopped in order to win the fight against the pandemic. In recent weeks, several countries have reportedly tried to prevent the export of vaccines made within their borders but Dr Okonjo-Iweala has said this most be stopped as protectionism would hinder a…
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Zimbabwe Receives First Batch of Covid-19 Vaccines
Zimbabwe has received its first 200,000 Sinopharm vaccines donated by the Chinese government. The vaccines arrived at the Robert Mugabe International Airport in the capital, Harare, in the early hours of Monday and were received by Vice President and Health Minister Constantino Chiwenga. “It has not been lost on us that in times of need…