vaccine

Mpox Outbreak: Spain Donates 500,000 Vaccine Doses to Africa

Mpox Outbreak: Spain Donates 500,000 Vaccine Doses to Africa

Spain has pledged to donate 500,000 doses of the mpox vaccine to combat a growing outbreak of the disease in… Read More

6 months ago

Covid-19: Unvaccinated 11 Times More Likely to Die

“Nigeria’s 0.8% vaccination rate contrasts poorly with South Africa’s 12.2%, Malaysia’s 52.8%, India’s 12.5%, Indonesia’s 15.1% and Kazakhstan’s 31.5%”. Covid-19… Read More

3 years ago

U.S. Study Confirms Safety of AstraZeneca Covid-19 Vaccine

The coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford is 79% effective in preventing symptomatic illness and 100%… Read More

4 years ago

New AstraZeneca Vaccine Troubles Put Africa’s Recovery At Risk

Several European nations have temporarily halted the rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine over reports of fatal brain hemorrhages and… Read More

4 years ago

Covid-19: Vaccine Delivery, Rollout Gather Pace in Africa

The first Covid-19 vaccination campaign in Africa kicked off in Ivory Coast on Monday with the administration of doses from… Read More

4 years ago

Russian Vaccine 3 Times More Expensive in Africa

Africa will be paying more for Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine than it is for Oxford/AstraZeneca, Novavax, and other ‘western’… Read More

4 years ago

Nigeria to Get 4M Doses of AstraZeneca Vaccine Next Week

Nigeria will get 4 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine next week in the first tranche of Covax facility consignment to… Read More

4 years ago

Ghana Receives First Shipment of Covid-19 Vaccine through Covax

Ghana this week became the first African country to receive a shipment of coronavirus vaccines through the World Health Organisation’s… Read More

4 years ago

Covid-19: Pfizer to Cut Vaccine Production Time By 50%

American drugmaker Pfizer has said it plans to reduce the amount of time it takes to produce a batch of… Read More

4 years ago

Nigerian Markets Last Week: New Covid Vaccines Lift Oil Prices, CBN Holds Monetary Rates

The Nigerian Markets report for the week ended January 29, 2020. It captures indexes that gauge performance across a number… Read More

4 years ago

Oil Prices Get Boost from New Novavax & J&J Vaccines

Reports surrounding two new vaccines – from Johnson & Johnson and Novavax – succeeding in the final stages of clinical… Read More

4 years ago

Study Shows Pfizer Vaccine Can Prevent New Covid Variants

The makers of Pfizer and BioNTech coronavirus vaccine said on Thursday that their vaccine is only slightly less effective against… Read More

4 years ago