COVID-19: FG destroys over 1m doses of AstraZeneca vaccines
By Joseph Erunke – Abuja The federal government has destroyed about 1,066,214 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines donated to the country to combat COVID-19. The destruction carried out on Wednesday in Abuja, according to the government, followed the expiration of the vaccines given to the country by foreign donors. The National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA […]
AstraZeneca: US data shows vaccine effective for all adults
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% […]
AstraZeneca says vaccine 80% effective for elderly, no blood clot risk
AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine is 80 per cent effective at preventing the disease in the elderly and does not increase the risk of blood clots, the biotech firm said Monday, following its US phase III efficiency trials. It was 79 per cent effective at preventing symptomatic Covid-19 in the overall population and 100 per cent effective […]
South Africa sells its AstraZeneca vaccine doses to AU
South Africa has sold a million doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine for distribution in 14 fellow African nations, the health minister announced Sunday. South Africa last month suspended its vaccination programme, which had started with AstraZeneca jabs, after doubts were raised over that vaccine’s efficacy against a local variant of Covid-19. Pretoria instead announced […]
Poll shows plunge in Europeans’ trust in AstraZeneca jab
Trust in AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine in many European countries has plunged following controversy around the jab in recent weeks, according to a new survey unveiled Monday by British pollsters YouGov. A majority of people in the biggest European Union member states, including Germany, France, Spain and Italy, now see the inoculation as unsafe, the recent […]
Denmark reports two cases of serious illness, including one death, after AstraZeneca shot
Denmark said on Saturday that one person had died and another fell seriously ill with blood clots and cerebral haemorrhage after receiving the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination. The two, both hospital staff members, had received the AstraZeneca vaccine less than 14 days before getting ill, the authority that runs public hospitals in Copenhagen said. The Danish […]
