COVAX

WHO: Vaccine Inequality ‘Failing Vulnerable People’

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says all health workers and elderly worldwide would have been vaccinated against coronavirus by now if…

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India’s Covid-19 Crisis Hits COVAX

The international scheme to ensure equal access to Covid-19 vaccines is 140 million doses short because of India's continuing Covid…

4 years ago

WHO: Less Than 2% of World’s Covid Vaccines Administered in Africa

 Less than 2% of the 690 million Covid-19 vaccine doses administered to date globally have been in Africa, where most…

4 years ago

Madagascar Ditches Covid-Organics, Set to Join Covid Vaccine Global Initiative

Madagascar has changed tact and decided to join the global Covid-19 vaccine initiative Covax. "There are still many steps to…

4 years ago

COVAX Affected as India Suspends AstraZeneca Vaccine Exports in Favour of Domestic Demand

India has placed a temporary hold on all exports of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine.  The Foreign Ministry sources said rising…

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Nigeria, Kenya, 24 Other African Nations Set to Receive Covid Vaccines through COVAX

Nigeria and Kenya are to receive Covid-19 vaccines from the UN-backed Covax programme on Tuesday. Kenya will get 1.25 million doses…

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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…

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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…

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Covid Vaccines From COVAX Will Arrive Nigeria Late February, Okonjo-Iweala Says

World Health Organisation envoy on Covid-19 Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has said actual physical quantities of Covid-19 vaccines will begin to…

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