Covid-19 vaccine

The Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps NSCDC, Dr Ahmed Audi, has encouraged personnel of the paramilitary agency to get the Covid-19 vaccine as it is safe. He was speaking after he received the AstraZeneca…

BioNTech expects results for trial testing of COVID-19 vaccine by September, of which it and Pfizer have developed in babies as young as six months old. BioNTech Chief Executive, Ugur Sahin said, “In July, the first results could be…

Syria northwestern region of Idlib, where millions of people live in dire humanitarian conditions, will receive a first batch of COVID-19 vaccine doses on Wednesday, a United Nations official said. The 53,800 doses of the AstraZeneca…

Egypt agreed to  purchase 20 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from China's Sinopharm and expects to receive a batch of 500,000 shots this month. Read Also: COVID-19 vaccines: Egypt to produce 80 million doses domestically –…

The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging for a fair and equitable sharing of global resources as it is working with COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers to expand worldwide vaccine production as only one percent of the 100 million doses…

Chinese researchers are testing mixing two COVID-19 vaccines developed by CanSino Biologics and a unit of Chongqing Zhifei Biological Products as a way of further boosting vaccine efficacy. The director of the Chinese Center for Disease…

Denmark is completely stopping the use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine after reports of blood clots cases among those who had received the vaccine. Soren Brostrom, Denmark Danish Health Administration, said at a press conference in…

Over 1.2 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines have been administered on Nigerians. The Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib, said the government is…

Cameroon took delivery on Sunday of 200,000 doses of China’s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines, the first vaccines to arrive in the country, which will enable it inoculate frontline workers as it battles rising cases of coronavirus, the health…

China is considering mixing Covid vaccine to increase its efficacy after recent data showed that Chinese vaccine efficacy was "not high". Read Also: COVID-19: China administers 65 million vaccine doses Gao Fu, the director of the…