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  • COVAX: How Nigeria Received Over 20 Million Doses In Two Years

    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…

  • 80% of PHCs Can’t Store, Administer COVID-19 Vaccines

    80% of PHCs Can’t Store, Administer COVID-19 Vaccines

    A non-governmental human right organization has revealed in its investigation that  80 percent of the PHCs were “substandard and unfit to store, and effectively administer COVID-19 vaccines.” The human rights organization said this after investigating the efficacy of 90 PHCs in 15 states. To strengthen and foster health sector accountability in Nigeria, the organization and…

  • NPHCDA: Over 50% Nigerians Will Take Covid-19 Vaccine

    NPHCDA: Over 50% Nigerians Will Take Covid-19 Vaccine

    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 that up to 75 percent of Nigerians said they will not take it. NPHCDA CEO, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, said this…