LOCAL Nigerian scientists have produced two local coronavirus vaccines from native plants and are currently awaiting clinical trials and certification of the products according to the presidential task force on Covid-19.
With a population of 200m, Nigeria needs purchase about 218.m doses of the coronavirus vaccine if the...
NIGERIA is set to receive its first batch of 4m doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine this Tuesday under the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Assess Facility (Covax) programme aimed at catering for the needs of poor countries.
Funded by the World Health Organisation (WHO), Covax was set-up to divide about 2bn doses of...
AFRICAN Development Bank (AfDB) president Dr Akinwunmi Adesina has warned that the continent desperately needs debt relief and fair access to one of the coronavirus vaccine if it is to overcome the economic fallout of the pandemic.
Since the outbreak if the Covid-19 pandemic just over a year ago, African economies have been...
NIGERIAN health officials have now revealed that the long-awaited Covid-19 vaccine will arrive in the country in late March after an agreement has been reached to be supplied through the African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (Avatt).
Medical experts have warned that Nigeria needs to set aside N540.4bn ($1.4bn) to purchase...
NIGERIA has still not made any budgetary provision for the purchase of a Covid-19 vaccine despite plans to purchase about 218.m doses of the new coronavirus vaccine in a bid to combat the second wave of the virus.
With the second wave of the virus sweeping across the globe, Nigeria has been told she needs to set aside...
NIGERIAN government officials have announced details of their proposed Covid-19 vaccination plan with proposals to spend a total of $576m administering the vaccine to about 72m people at a cost of $8 a shot.
Like most other nations, Nigeria is looking to begin vaccinate its citizens this month following the availability of...
HEALTH minister Dr Osagie Ehanire has assured Nigerians that they will begin receiving the new coronavirus vaccine as from January next year following the entering into an agreement between the federal government and the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Although spared the worst excesses of the global pandemic, Nigeria has...African News
FORMER finance minister and African Union (AU) special envoy on coronavirus Dr Okonjo-Iweala has promised that Nigerians and other Africans will have access to the new Covid-19 vaccine as from the end of January.
Earlier this year, Dr Okonjo-Iweala was appointed by the AU as its special envoy to solicit international support...
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