Rwanda has budgeted 50 billion Rwandan francs (about $51.2 million) to buy COVID-19 vaccines for over 7.8 million people by 2022, Health Minister, Daniel Ngamije, said. The government will spend at least two-thirds of the total budget, as some vaccines are expected to come in as donations or via COVAX. COVAX is a mechanism led […]

The FCT Administration has warned residents not to capitalise on the arrival of the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines into the country to flout the COVID-19 Health Protection Regulations Act, 2021.

By Joseph Erunke ABUJA-NIGERIA will receive about four million doses of vaccines from the COVAX facility for COVID – 19  treatment on March 1 2021,  the federal government said late Saturday night. Chairman of Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha,who disclosed this,however said that the vaccines […]

Dr Chizoba Wonodi , a Public Health Physician and Researcher, says the  coronavirus vaccine is  the panacea  to end the pandemic. Wonodi, who is also the Nigeria Country Director for the International Vaccine Access Center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, spoke with the  News Agency of   Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on […]

Egypt’s pharmaceutical authority on Wednesday approved the use of the Sputnik V and AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines, a month after the North African country kicked off its inoculation campaign. The drug body had “provided emergency authorisation for the use of the two vaccines, Sputnik V, and AstraZeneca… imported from South Korea”, it said in a statement […]