Covid-19 vaccine

The Presidency says President Muhammad Buhari is not having any side effects from the COVID-19 vaccine he took on Saturday. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicly, Garba Shehu in a statement said: "In response…

President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo will on Saturday March 6, 2021 receive the Covid-19 vaccine publicly. Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Faisal Shuaib,…

The Nigerian Government has received its first batch of about four million doses of the Covid-19 vaccines. The plane arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja at about 11:42 am. The Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine…

Nigeria is scheduled to receive  3.92 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, 2 March 2021. The announcement was contained in a joint press statement by the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, NPHCDA,…

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday urged wealthy countries not to hoard surplus doses of Covid-19 vaccine, saying the world needed to come together to fight the pandemic. South Africa has recorded nearly half the…

The European Union wants to set up a mechanism that would allow the sharing of surplus Covid-19 vaccines with poorer neighbouring states and Africa, the EU health chief said on Tuesday. With a population of 450 million, the EU has…

Senegal does not have the capacity to store Covid-19 vaccines at ultra-low temperatures and prefers to receive vials that can be kept for longer time under ordinary refrigeration, the head of the country’s vaccination programme said on…

African countries will have access to the COVID-19 vaccines from the end of January through the first quarter of 2021, said a special envoy of the African Union (AU) on Wednesday. The AU special envoy on mobilising international economic…