Covid-19 vaccine

US Urges Pregnant Women to Vaccinate as Delta Surges

  The Uinted States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged all pregnant women Wednesday to get the COVID-19 vaccine…

3 years ago

UK, US Relationship ‘Indestructible’, PM Johnson Says

The alliance between the US and the UK should be known as the "indestructible relationship", Boris Johnson has told the…

3 years ago

‘We Are Not Guinea Pigs’: Nigerian Preacher Bishop Oyedepo Rails Against  Vaccination

Popular Nigerian preacher and presiding bishop of Living Faith Church Worldwide, David Oyedepo, has said no one should be forced to…

4 years ago

US Calls for Pause On Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 Vaccine Over Blood Clot Cases

US federal health agencies have recommended pausing the use of Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose COVID-19 vaccine after six recipients developed…

4 years ago

Nigeria to Redistribute Unutilised Covid-19 Vaccine to States

Nigeria’s federal government may tinker with the COVID-19 vaccine deployment strategy by redistributing  unutilised doses out of the consignments sent…

4 years ago

Pfizer Says Covid-19 Vaccine Safe, Effective On Adolescents in Trial

Pfizer and BioNTech have announced that their Covid-19 vaccine is safe and effective in 12- to 15-year olds, paving the…

4 years ago

AstraZeneca Says US Trial Data Shows Vaccine 79% Effective

Advanced trial data from a US study on the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine shows it is 79% effective, in long-awaited research…

4 years ago

Britain Hits Milestone as Half of All Adults Get First Vaccine Dose

Half of all adults in Britain have now had at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose, making the country the world’s…

4 years ago

WHO Says 7m Doses of Covid Vaccines Administered in Africa So Far

Over six million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Africa, a World Health Organization (WHO) official has…

4 years ago

Austria Suspends AstraZeneca Covid-19 Vaccine Batch after Death

Austrian authorities have suspended inoculations with a batch of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine as a precaution while investigating the death of…

4 years ago

Nigeria President Buhari, VP Osinbajo Receive Covid-19 Vaccine

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo have received a shot of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at the presidential…

4 years ago

G7 Summit: UK Pledges Covid-19 Vaccine Surplus to Poorer Countries

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is pledging to donate most of the UK's surplus vaccine supply to poorer countries in…

4 years ago

Africa Secures Another 400 Million Covid-19 Vaccine Doses

Another 400 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been secured for the African continent through the Serum Institute of India,…

4 years ago

Spain’s Top General Resigns Over Allegations of Vaccination Queue-jumping

Spain’s top general resigned on Saturday after allegations he had received the Covid-19 vaccine ahead of priority groups, one of…

4 years ago

Mali to Start Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout in April

Mali has announced it plans to buy more than 8.4 million doses of coronavirus vaccine and expects to start a…

4 years ago

Africa Secures Close to 300 Million Vaccine Doses, Official Says

The African Union has secured close to 300 million COVID-19 vaccine doses in the largest such agreement yet for Africa,…

4 years ago

President Buhari, Vice President Osinbajo to Receive Covid-19 Vaccine on Live TV

Plans are being made for the Nigerian President Muhammadu and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to receive the COVID-19 vaccine on live…

4 years ago

India Tests Vaccine Delivery System with Nationwide Trial

India tested its Covid-19 vaccine delivery system with a nationwide trial on Saturday as it prepares to roll out an…

4 years ago

China Approves Homegrown Covid-19 Vaccine for General Use

China has approved its first homegrown Covid-19 vaccine for general use, marking the addition of another vaccine in the global…

4 years ago

‘Easy to Handle’ Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine Approved for Use in UK

Britain has authorized emergency use of a second Covid-19 vaccine, becoming the first country to greenlight an easy-to-handle shot that…

4 years ago