AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) Girls Act, on Monday called on world leaders to ensure that all countries had equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines. Ms Maryam Wakari, member of the AHF Girls Act, Abuja Chapter, made the call during a media campaign tagged “Vaccinate Our World” (VOW) in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports…
A plane carrying desperately-needed medical supplies landed in Afghanistan on Monday, the World Health Organisation said, a first since the Taliban took control of the country two weeks ago. Hospitals and clinics are rapidly running out of supplies in the war-ravaged country, and a deadly attack at Kabul airport Friday has further complicated the delivery…
India’s rising output of COVID-19 vaccines and the inoculation of more than half its adult population with at least one dose are raising hopes the country will resume being an exporter within months, ramping up from early next year. After donating or selling 66 million doses to nearly 100 countries, India barred exports in mid-April…
No fewer than 100 million African children have been vaccinated against polio in the past one year, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti said that although COVID-19 had threatened the success of polio vaccination, it was possible to overcome the final hurdles. Moeti, in a statement,…
Nigeria and other African states overseen by the African Regional Office of the World Health Organisation (WHO) are committed to ending all remaining forms of polio. The Regional Office has also presented a scorecard to track progress towards the eradication of the virus. The African Region was certified free of wild poliovirus one year ago,…
The British government has donated a fresh batch of 592,880 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Nigeria, as part of the over five million doses, pledged to 11 African countries. A statement by the British High Commission in Nigeria on Friday, said the additional donation to Nigeria, brought the total number of vaccine doses donated by…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says that Nigeria’s COVID-19 infections on Wednesday stood at 188,880. A total of 637 additional infections and seven deaths were recorded on Aug. 25, the NCDC announced via its verified website on Thursday. the new infections indicate a decrease from the 655 cases reported on Tuesday. The public health agency…
COVID-19 vaccinations in Africa have tripled during the past week, though protecting even 10 percent of the continent by the end of September remains “a very daunting task,” the Africa director of the World Health Organization has said. The continent saw 248,000 new confirmed cases during the past week, with at least 28 countries experiencing…
US grants full safety approval to Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given full safety approval to Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine in a landmark decision that will allow leading US employers and universities to mandate jabs. The FDA’s decision brings about the first US government licence of a…
