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COVAX: How Nigeria Received Over 20 Million Doses In Two Years
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 25th of February 2020. He was confirmed by the Virology Laboratory of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, part…
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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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NAFDAC Approves Johnson & Johnson COVID Vaccine For Emergency use
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 issued by Mojisola Adeyeye, director-general of NAFDAC. The J&J vaccine would be the third vaccine to be approved by the country’s drug…