Tag: AstraZeneca Vaccine
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NMA endorses Astrazeneca vaccine to combat Delta COVID-19 variant
Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Kwara chapter, says two jabs of the COVID-19 Astrazeneca vaccine are about 92 per cent effective against the Delta variant of the virus. The Chairman of the Kwara NMA, Dr Baba Issa, made this known at a news conference organised ahead of the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the association in…
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JUST IN: Nigeria takes delivery Of 100,000 more AstraZeneca vaccines from India
The federal government on Tuesday said an additional 100,000 doses of the Oxford/Astrazeneca vaccine has been received from India. Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha made the announcement during a press briefing in Abuja. The vaccines, donated by the government of India to Nigeria, will help boost the number of Nigerians…
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Nigeria receives 300,000 additional doses of AstraZeneca vaccine
Nigeria has received 300,000 additional doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines, the government said on Monday. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, disclosed this at the briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 in Abuja, the nation’s capital. He noted that the vaccines were donated to the government by…
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Georgia nurse dies hours after receiving AstraZeneca vaccine
A nurse was reportedly dead on Friday after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine in Georgia’s southwestern city of Akhaltsikhe on Thursday. The 27-year-old nurse, Megi Bakradze, who developed an alleged anaphylactic reaction after receiving the first shot of the vaccine, died after being transported to a hospital in Tbilisi, local Interpressnews reported. The report said four…
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Nigerian governors back continuous use of AstraZeneca vaccine, say no side effects recorded so far
Members of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) have supported the continued roll out of the AstraZeneca vaccine across the country. The governors insisted that the vaccine was safe for use, stressing that no side effects had been reported by those who have so far received the jabs in Nigeria. TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that concerns about…
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South Africa suspends use of AstraZeneca Vaccine
South Africa suspended its vaccination campaign against COVID-19 Sunday after a new study revealed that the AstraZeneca vaccine is less effective against a variant of the virus found in the country. The study, conducted by the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and not yet peer reviewed, concluded that the British vaccine offered only “limited…