By Chioma Obinna Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi on Thursday, insisted that Lagosians who fit into Phase One of the ongoing COVID vaccination exercise must register on the dedicated vaccination self-registration portal before visiting any of the 88 vaccination sites for vaccination. Abayomi further declared that e-registration was now a mandatory protocol […]

British-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca on Wednesday revised down by three percentage points the effectiveness of its Covid vaccine after American authorities raised concerns that results reported from its US trial were outdated. The company now says its vaccine is 76 rather than 79 percent effective at preventing any kind of symptomatic Covid. It remains 100 percent […]

Finland and Iceland announced Wednesday their senior citizens will again be able to have the AstraZeneca vaccination against Covid-19, after halting the jabs over blood clot fears. “There is no increased risk of very rare blood clots for people older than 65 after having the vaccination,” said Finland’s THL health agency. “Vaccination in this age […]

The EU on Wednesday tightened its rules on Covid-19 vaccine exports, making authorisations contingent on destination countries behaving “fairly” in return — particularly vaccine-producing ones. The action came as Brussels wrangled with UK-based vaccine producer AstraZeneca over a supply shortfall, spurring a British warning against “arbitrary blockades”. But Britain and the European Commission later issued […]

By Sola Ogundipe Nigeria’s priorities in a post-COVID-19 world include restoring economic growth in the immediate term, building resilience in the health sector, and repositioning the economy on a sustainable footing in the medium term while saving jobs and building domestic capacity and local production in critical areas. The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, who disclosed this […]

…As Nigeria vaccinates 215,277 eligible persons By Sola Ogundipe & Chioma Obinna Results from a US trial of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine may have included “outdated information” and that could mean the company provided an incomplete view of efficacy data, American federal health officials have stated. This development came as 215,277 eligible Nigerians were vaccinated with […]

Few days into the COVID-19 vaccination exercise in Nigeria, an update released by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA, on Monday showed that a total of 122,410 eligible Nigerians have so far been vaccinated, representing 3.1 per cent of the proportion vaccinated.

French authorities said Tuesday they were investigating the death of a 26-year-old medical student days after he received AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine, while stressing that no link had been established yet with the jab. The student died on March 18 in the western city of Nantes, 10 days after receiving the AstraZeneca jab. The public prosecutor […]

AstraZeneca reported Monday that its COVID-19 vaccine provided strong protection among adults of all ages in a long-anticipated U.S. study, a finding that could help rebuild public confidence in the shot around the world and move it a step closer to clearance in the U.S. In the study of 30,000 people, the vaccine was 79% […]

At least one in three patients hospitalised with Covid-19 suffer long-term health issues including multiple organ problems and deteriorated mental health, according to a review of studies looking at the lasting impact of the disease. Published in the journal Nature Medicine on Monday, the review looked at the frequency of symptoms among Covid “long-haulers”, the […]