Health

South Africa Drops Coronavirus Alert Level After Dip in New Infections

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday announced that the nation will move from coronavirus alert level three to level one in…

4 years ago

Nigeria Takes Delivery of About 4m Covid Vaccines on Monday

Nigeria’s federal government has disclosed that it will receive the first batch of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines from India on Monday…

4 years ago

Covid-19 Triggered Rapid Investment in Nigeria’s Health Security, Disease Control Boss Says

Exactly one year after Nigeria recorded its Covid-19 index case, Nigeria’s federal government on Friday stated that the pandemic had…

4 years ago

Covid Vaccines :We Have to Work with the Country We Have, Not the One We Wish We Had, Nigeria’s Disease Control Boss, Ihekweazu Says

As Nigeria prepares to receive its first batch of the Covid-19 vaccines, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has…

4 years ago

Mozambique Receives First Batch of Sinopharm Covid-19 Vaccine Doses

Mozambique has received 200,000 doses of vaccines by Sinopharm from China, but the country is yet to disclose its vaccination…

4 years ago

Moderna Set to Test Coronavirus Booster Shot For South African Strain

Drugmaker, Moderna says it has shipped doses of its variant-specific booster shot to the National Institutes of Health for clinical…

4 years ago

Egypt Approves Russia’s Sputnik V Vaccine for Inoculation

The Egyptian Drug Authority has announced its approval of the Russian Sputnik V, a month after the start of the…

4 years ago

Single-Shot Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Safe, US Regulators Say

A review by US regulators of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine has found it is safe and effective.…

4 years ago

Ghana Becomes First Country to Receive Covid Vaccines through COVAX

A flight carrying 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India landed in Ghana’s capital…

4 years ago

Survey Suggests Covid Infection in Lagos May Top Africa’s Official Total

Four million people in Lagos State alone, Nigeria's commercial capital have had the coronavirus - more than has been officially recorded…

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