The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, said on Wednesday Nigeria may start taking delivery of its COVID-19 vaccine supply from March. The Federal Government had...
The British manufacturers of the AstraZeneca vaccine developed in conjunction with the University of Oxford has revealed that its COVID-19 jab is less effective against the...
Health authorities in Iran have confirmed that its locally made COVID-19 vaccine (COVIran Barekat) is effective against the mutant variant of the virus first discovered in...
Deep concerns have been raised in South Africa over the latest trial of the Novavax vaccine as it proved effective in only 49.4% of cases overall....
The Federal Government of Nigeria has called on monarchs and other traditional rulers in the country to change their negative psyche and stop the misinformation about...
Governors of the northern part of the country under the auspices of the Northern States Governors’ Forum (NSGF) have unanimously agreed to take the first dose...
South Africa is expected to receive the first batch of one million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, produced by the Serum Institute of India, the world’s...
In 1999 at the threshold of the New Millennium the corporate world was held spell bound by a campaign blitz about the inevitable crash of computer...
The Lagos State government has revealed that it is neck deep in negotiations with manufacturers of the COVID-19 vaccine in a bid to make it available...
The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, said on Thursday Nigeria would receive 10 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine in March. The minister, who disclosed this...
The South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, on Thursday confirmed that the African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (AVATT) has secured a provisional 270 million doses of COVID-19...
Oyo governor, Seyi Makinde, Wednesday, said it will engage manufacturers of Astra-Zeneca Covid-19 vaccine as the 1,848 doses of Covid-19 allocated by the Federal government to...
The Federal Government has announced that President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, and other prominent personalities...
There is public outrage in the city of Warsaw in Poland after a hospital prioritised giving COVID-19 vaccine shots to celebrities and politicians. Reports say the...
The Minister of State for Health, Olorunnimbe Mamora, said on Tuesday the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 would focus on the procurement of vaccine in the...
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, said on Thursday the COVID-19 vaccines would be administered free of charge to Nigerians whenever they become available. Lawan, who made...
The National Coordinator of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Sani Aliyu, said on Wednesday the COVID-19 vaccine would be administered to Nigerians free of charge....
The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has said the reluctance of Nigerians to receive shots of the COVID-19 vaccines may be the greatest challenge it...
Health authorities in the United States of America have approved the emergency use of Moderna vaccine as cases of the deady COVID-19 disease surpass 17 million...
The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin has explained why he cannot yet take the locally made COVID-19 vaccine popularly known as the Sputnik V serum. While...
The Rwandan government says it will offer free Covid-19 vaccine to citizens after the country receives the vaccine next year. Rwandan Health Minister, Daniel Ngamije broke...
The government of the United States of America has endorsed the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine as the country gears up for massive inoculation to stem the spread...
The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, said on Thursday the Federal Government was working toward getting 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine from other parts...
The United Kingdom’s medicine regulator has warned that people with a history of anaphylaxis to a medicine or food should not risk taking a shot of...
The administration of President Donald Trump has been told by US pharmaceutical company, Pfizer that it will not be able to provide additional Covid-19 vaccines to...
The United Kingdom has started rolling out the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, making it the first Western country to begin vaccinating its population...
Sinovac Biotech, a Chinese pharmaceutical company has secured the princely sum of $500 million in extra funding to produce its Covid-19 vaccine, as the country races...
The United Kingdom became the first country in the world on Wednesday to approve Covid-19 vaccine for public use ahead of the US and European countries....
The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that Covid-19 vaccines alone would not put an end to the pandemic. The agency’s Emergencies Programme Director, Mike Ryan...
The Nigerian government Monday affirmed that its new upward review of the retail price of gasoline was triggered by the progress recorded by New-York based pharmaceutical...
A US biotech firm, Moderna Inc on Monday said preliminary data from an ongoing phase three study of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine showed it to be...
Prof. Ugur Sahin, the co-founder of BioNTech, the creators of a new vaccine for Covid-19, has said that the impact of the vaccine will become very...
The Minister for Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire has disclosed that the Federal Government has put plans in place to ensure that Nigerians get the Covid-19 vaccine...
Oil prices lifted further on Wednesday as the optimism that a vaccine, developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, will turn out 100 per cent effective in treating...
The United States President-elect, Joe Biden, on Monday called for caution and vigilance as drug companies Pfizer and BioNTech announced that their COVID-19 vaccine candidates had...
Pharmaceutical firm Pfizer said an early evaluation of the trial of the Covid-19 vaccine it was inventing showed it was effective in keeping Covid-19 at bay,...
A top Chinese official at the country’s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Guizhen Wu has said that COVID-19 vaccine produced in the Asian country may...
AstraZeneca, one of the most advanced vaccines in development has resumed British clinical trials of its COVID-19 drug. This came after getting the green light from...
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Friday appealed to Europe to ensure that the COVID-19 vaccine was available to Nigeria and other African countries when finally deployed. He...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed that Africa will get at least 220 million initial doses once the vaccine for the novel Covid-19 disease has...
The government of the United States of America has stated that it will not work with an international cooperative effort to develop and distribute a COVID-19...
The government of the United States of America is considering moves to give approval for a COVID-19 vaccine which is being developed in the country. This...
The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, said on Thursday the Federal Government had started working with global health and research organisations developing COVID-19 vaccines. Ehanire,...
Argentina and Mexico have both reached an agreement with a British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and the biotechnology company mAbxience of the INSUD Group to produce AstraZeneca...
Scientists are skeptical about President Vladimir Putin’s claims on Russia’s potential Covid-19 vaccine, saying the vaccine still needs critical data to determine whether it’s safe or...
Vladimir Putin’s Russia has become the first country in the world to clear a COVID-19 vaccine and declare it ready for use. Putin in a statement...
Pharmaceutical giants Pfizer has promised to make Nigeria a priority for the availability of the BNT162 COVID-19 vaccine candidate when it eventually becomes available. The company...
The world’s biggest COVID-19 vaccine trial got under way on Monday in the United States of America with the first of 30,000 planned volunteers helping to...
Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance and Chair of the Gavi Board, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-iweala, has commended a pledge of $1.6 billion by the Bill and Melinda...
There are approximately seven or eight “top” candidates for a vaccine to combat the coronavirus, and work on them is being accelerated, the World Health Organization...
