Tag: VACCINE
National Routine Immunisation: Nigerian Government Introduces Malaria Vaccine Into Schedule.
The Federal Government has said the malaria vaccine will now be part of the national routine immunisation schedule.Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, the Coordinating Minister...
Nigeria Okays Malaria Vaccine For Children Below Three Years
The Federal Government has approved the provisional use of an anti-malaria R-21 vaccine. The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC...
Tunisia Starts Implementation Of Mandatory Covid-19 Vaccination Pass
The mandatory vaccination pass, which aims to limit the spread of Covid-19 in the public and private sectors, is now in force in Tunisia...
World Polio Day: Kwara Records Circulating Vaccine-Derived Polio Virus
A health expert, Michael Oguntoye, said a new case of circulating Vaccine-Derived Polio Virus CVDPV had been recorded in a child at Kaiama Local...
WHO Approves First Malaria Vaccine For Children
The World Health Organisation WHO is recommending widespread use of the world’s first malaria vaccine for the decades-long battle against the deadly disease for...
Nigeria Expects 52m Doses Of Covid-19 Vaccines By 2022-SGF
The Chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee PSC on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, has disclosed that Nigeria was expecting to receive a total of 52...
Cholera: NCDC To Submit Vaccination Request To ICG, GTFCC, NPHCDA
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control NCDC is to submit a cholera vaccination request to the International Coordinating Group ICG and the Global Task...
Astrazeneca Vaccine :Nigeria To Receive 698,880 Doses Today
The Federal Government on Monday has announced that Nigeria willtoday receive 698,880 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.The Executive Director, National Primary Health Care DevelopmentAgency,...
COVID-19: FG Postpones Vaccination Due To Unforseen Cirumstances
The Federal Government has postponed the second phase of the nationalvaccination programme.The second phase was expected to kickstart on Tuesday after the USdonated over...
COVID-19 Vaccine: Covax Ships 4m Doses To Africa
COVID-19 vaccine shipments to Africa are rapidly ramping up frommultiple sources after a near-halt to deliveries in recent months.Nearly four million doses from COVAX...
Covid-19: WTO Working To Boost Vaccine Production In Africa – Okonjo-Iweala
The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has said talks are in motion to persuade vaccine companies toinvest more in Africa.She made...
Hajj 2021: COVID-19 Vaccine Initiated To All Kaduna Intending Pilgrims
The Kaduna State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board vaccinated 2,837 intending pilgrims for the 2021 Hajj.Hannatu Zailani, acting chairwoman of the board divulged this to...
COVID-19: Vaccine Alone Won’t End Pandemic – WHO
The head of the World Health Organization said Monday that a vaccine would not by itself stop the coronavirus pandemic.The pandemic is raging months...
Ebola: Congo To Deploy Second Vaccine
Health
authorities in Democratic Republic of Congo said on Saturday that they plan to
introduce a second Ebola vaccine, manufactured by Johnson & Johnson, to
counter the...
Polio: W.H.O Alerts About New Strains Of Vaccine-Derived In Southern Nigeria
The World Health Organisation, WHO has alerted about an
emergence and spread of new strains of vaccine-derived polio-virus type-2
(cVDPV2) in southern Nigeria.WHO announced that there...
