Doctor Kate Martin (L) prepares dosed of the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 vaccine at the vaccination centre set up at St Columba’s church in Sheffield, northern England, on February 20, 2021. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP) More than 200 million coronavirus vaccine doses have been administered in at least 107 countries and territories, according to an […]
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A health worker displays a vial containing the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, in Suresnes, on February 6, 2021, on the start of a vaccination campaign for health workers with the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine. – The top French medical authority Haute autorité de Santé has approved the vaccine for use in France, but only for people under 65, […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday, promised that Nigeria would continue to partner with the World Health Organisation and other countries to ensure accelerated development and manufacturing as well as unhindered supply of safe and effective coronavirus vaccines to all Africans. He made the promise in his remarks while participating in the virtual 34th ordinary session […]
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cites poor storage facility, fears wastage of planned 100,000 doses The World Health Organisation-led COVAX global initiative has failed to shortlist Nigeria for the Pfizer vaccines following the country’s inability to meet the standard requirement of being able to store the vaccines at the required -70 degrees Celsius. The Nigerian government had stated that […]
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This picture, taken on February 1, 2021, shows vials of Russian Sputnik V vaccine in Belgrade Fair turned into a vaccination centre. – Serbia continues a mass Covid-19 vaccination campaign and became the first European country to use Chinese-made Sinopharm vaccine, after receiving one million doses of the Sinopharm vaccine, on January 16, 2021. Beside […]
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State governments, except Lagos and Oyo, are not making independent plans to procure COVID-19 vaccine, officials said on Sunday. Officials of states including Plateau, Delta, Ekiti, Gombe, Cross River and Bauchi, in separate interviews, said they had not made any plan to buy the vaccine, rather they would depend on allocations from the Federal Government. […]
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Researchers at the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) have attested to the potency of a substance in pineapples that inhibits the inflammation problems caused by COVID-19. Prof. Bamidele Owoyele, who did the research titled: “Bromelain reduced pro-inflammatory mediators as a common pathway that mediate antinociceptive and antianxiety effects in sciatic nerve litigated Wistar rats” with his […]
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expects 150m doses of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine The world is on the verge of reaching 100 million COVID-19 infections, according to Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Centre statistics. More than two million people have died from the virus. But, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO), said COVID vaccines could bring the global pandemic […]
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Nigeria, like many other countries of the world, is experiencing the second wave of Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. More and more people are getting infected by the day as the daily reports by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) show. As at 2.41pm yesterday, the NCDC Coronavirus Microsite showed that Nigeria recorded 1,964 new cases […]
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Scientists and researchers at the Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, and the ABUAD Multi-system Hospital, Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, on Thursday, said they had a breakthrough in understanding why humans were more vulnerable to infections by the new variant of COVID-19, popularly known as N501Y SARS-CoV-2 mutant. The bio-medical scientists and researchers, led by Dr […]
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