coronavirus vaccine

United States is expected to approve low-cost AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine in April, a senior official said, more than three months after Britain’s green light on Wednesday. Moncef Slaoui, chief advisor to Operation Warp Speed,…

General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has said for every COVID-19 vaccine discovered, a new variant of the virus will emerge until “the high and mighty admit that safety is of the Lord”. He stated…

Spain will set up a registry of people who refuse to be vaccinated against the new coronavirus and share it with other European Union member states, although it will not be made public, Health Minister Salvador Illa said on Monday. Illa …

National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control is expected to give emergency approval for COVID-19 vaccines once they arrive in Nigeria, it has emerged. Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof Moji Adeyeye, said this during an…

Nigerian Centre for Disease Control has said that over 100 million Nigerians would have received the COVID-19 vaccine by March 2021. The health agency’s Director-General, Chikwe Ihekweazu made this known while speaking on Channels…

National Coordinator of Presidential Taskforce (PTF) on COVID-19, Sani Aliyu says the COVID-19 vaccine will be administered to Nigerians free when vaccination begins. Aliyu made this known on Wednesday during an interview on Channels…

Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, on Monday said the Federal Government was substantially ready for a successful COVID-19 vaccination to save the lives of citizens. Ehanire made this known in Abuja while briefing the Senate…

US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday received a COVID-19 vaccine live on television in a campaign to boost Americans’ confidence in the jabs. The 78-year-old incoming president got the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at Christiana Hospital…

National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), on Friday announced that Nigeria would soon start manufacturing its own vaccines, with the upgrading of existing laboratories across the country. Director-General,…

US President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, will publicly receive their first shot of the COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, a transition official said. He also revealed that US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug…

United States vice president, Mike Pence, on Friday received a COVID-19 vaccine shot live on television in a public display designed to boost national confidence in the drug. Speaking after being injected at Walter Reed Medical Center,…

Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, has said Nigerians should expect to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by the end of January 2021. He stated this on Wednesday during the 28th Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the Council…

Pharmaceutical giant, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, has revealed that he is yet to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. It would be recalled that US Food and Drug Administration last week Friday gave approval for the emergency use of …

A 90-year-old woman named Margaret Keenan has on Tuesday, December 8 become the first person in the United Kingdom and in the world to receive Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine outside trial conditions. The grandmother, who is from …