By Our Reporter Stakeholders and groups all over the world have gone extra miles in ensuring that the Covid-19 virus is contained.This is as Bill & Melinda Gates foundation pledged US$150 million, so also Wellcome making a total of US$300 million towards COVID-19 vaccine production. The pledge was made to ...
By InfactNg Traditional and religious leaders in Nigeria should join the campaign to eradicate the myths and misconceptions surrounding the COVID-19 vaccination especially as the new omicron variant of the virus continues to spread to many countries. This is contained in the resolution at the end of the Board of ...
From Elohor Igbru, Abuja Nigeria yesterday came out of her slumber to lash out at former colonial master, Great Britain over the latter’s "unfair, discriminatory” travel ban over the coronavirus omicron variant which has been detected in the country. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said the United ...
By Elohor Igbru, Abuja Nigeria and other lower-income countries will stand to benefit as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced today a commitment of up to $120 million to accelerate access to the investigational antiviral drug molnupiravir for lower-income countries as part of its COVID-19 response effort. According to the Foundation ...
By Ademola Adeleye Fears of a new deadly spread of the coronavirus in Africa is spreading even as vaccination drops to a halt in the continent. The situation has led to the exposure of front line workers and other vulnerable people to the disease. Shipment of the vaccines from COVAX ...
By Victor Emeruwa/Ibadan Early results from some scientific studies have shown that unborn children may have developed antibodies to the COVID-19 virus making COVID vaccination safe for pregnant women, the head of the department of Virology at the University of Ibadan Teaching Hospital (UCH), Prof. Georgina Odaibo has said. The ...
From Kenneth Chigozie, Jos A Nigerian scientist and virologist, Dr. Clement Meseko has urged the public, especially the faith-based community to disregard the suspicions about the COVID 19 vaccines and theories that it contains sterile components or microchips. Meseko, a researcher at the National Virology Research Institute in Jos, Plateau ...
By Mark Suzman, CEO, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation This week, we learned that the COVID-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca appears to provide no measurable effect on mild or moderate disease caused by the variant of the virus first identified in South Africa, known as B.1.351. This ...
