The government of Oyo State, on Thursday, confirmed the receipt of 127, 740 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines from the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHDA), Abuja. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, indicated that the vaccines were received in Ibadan by the Oyo…
Lagos State, being the epicentre of the COVID-19 virus in Nigeria, has received the highest allocation of the AstraZeneca vaccine on Tuesday. As several states across the country begin to confirm delivery of the vaccine, Lagos leads the allocation pack with 507,000 doses. The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) received about 219,800 doses; Kaduna State got…
Nigeria has received its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines. The NAFDAC-approved Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines arrived in the country around noon on Tuesday, through an Emirates airline. Present at the airport to receive the vaccines were the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 and Secretary General to the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha, the Minister for…
Despite various measures been put in place by countries across the world to curb the spread of COVID-19 infection, the world is still faced with the challenge of curtailing the spread as more than 100 million people are confirmed to have been infected by the virus globally, according to data from Johns Hopkins University data…