coronavirus vaccine

World Health Organization has on Monday expressed that persuading people to receive COVID-19 vaccine would be better than trying to make the jabs mandatory. The UN health organization said it would be down to individual countries as to…

United Kingdom to commence the administration of first doses of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 on Tuesday, it has emerged. Chris Hopson, head of NHS Provider, a membership organisation for the National Health Service trusts…

Health Minister of northern Indian State of Haryana, Anil Vij has tested positive for the virus, few days after receiving a trial dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Vij, who is in charge of several ministries including health, announced via his…

Former US presidents, Barack Obama, George W Bush and Bill Clinton have pledged to get publicly vaccinated for coronavirus in order to promote the safety of the vaccine. Obama, in an interview with SiriusXM radio, said he would be…

Developers of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine have said it is 95 percent effective against the virus. Russia’s health ministry, the state-run Gamaleya research center and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) in a statement…

A Nottingham Trent University scientist in the United Kingdom, Dr. Garreth Cave has invented a face mask that can “kill viruses including COVID-19 and influenza upon contact”. While most face masks have a three-layer design, this mask…

A new study in the United Kingdom has shown that household liquid substance, mouthwash may kill COVID-19 in saliva within 30 seconds when exposed in a laboratory. The new study comes as scientists worldwide race toward discovering an…

Director-General of World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has Monday said that a vaccine would not by itself stop the coronavirus pandemic. Since the virus was first recorded in November in China, the world has…

Total COVID-19 toll has on Sunday, November 15 exceeded 65,000 as Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced 152 new cases. The health agency made the announcement via its official Twitter page @NCDCgov, with the breakdown of…

Top US infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, has said the first doses of a successful COVID-19 vaccine would be available to some hardest-hit Americans by late December or early January. Fauci, who is the Director of the National…

Minister of State for Health, Dr. Adeleke Mamora has on Thursday announced that the Federal Government was yet to receive the Russian vaccine for COVID-19 pandemic. MDB reported that Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin had in August…

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 156 new cases, 189 recoveries and 3 deaths on Friday, September 4. NCDC in a tweet on its official Twitter handle announced; 156 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria; Lagos-36 FCT-35…

Russia has announced plans to begin the first mass deliveries of its coronavirus vaccine in September. Health Minister Mikhail Murashko made this known on Monday, August 31 saying; The vaccine will be supplied first and foremost to…

President Donald Trump has accused the US Food and Drug Administration of deliberately delaying coronavirus vaccine trials. Trump on Saturday, August 22 tweeted; The deep state, or whoever, over at the FDA is making it very difficult…

A top medical expert has warned that coronavirus will be present ‘forever’ and people are likely to need regular vaccinations against it. Sir Mark Walport, a former chief scientific adviser, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that…