Tag: COVID-19 Vaccine
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Governors will receive COVID 19 vaccine on national television – Fayemi
The Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum, Governor Kayode Fayemi, has announced that governors will take the COVID-19 vaccine on live television to demonstrate to their residents that the vaccine works. Governor Fayemi made this known on Friday to State House correspondents after a private meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari where security, the economy and…
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Fraudster injects fake COVID-19 vaccine on 92-year-old woman
British police on Friday hunted a fraudster who tricked a 92-year-old woman into handing over £160 to receive a fake coronavirus vaccine jab in what they called a “disgusting and totally unacceptable assault”. The conman knocked on the door of the pensioner in Surbiton, southwest London, on December 30, claiming to work for the state-run…
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Covid-19: Buhari, Osinbajo, SGF to receive vaccine on live television
In a bid to encourage Nigerians to get inoculated, President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will be receiving their COVID-19 vaccine doses on live television. Secretary to the Government of the Federation Boss Mustapha will also receive the vaccine on live telecast in a move the government hopes will help drive awareness. Executive…
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BREAKING: Atiku receives COVID-19 Vaccine in Dubai [Photos]
Reports reaching TheNewsGuru.com, TNG from Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) indicates that Nigeria’s former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has received the Pfizer Covid-19 Vaccine. According to reports, Atiku arrived Dubai on Wednesday morning and was later spotted in the afternoon same day receiving the vaccine alongside top Dubai’s business men. With this development, the…
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75-year-old Israeli dies less than two hours after receiving COVID-19 vaccine
A seventy-year-old Israeli man from Beit Shean died on Monday morning from cardiac arrest, about two hours after receiving the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine. The man received the vaccine at 8:30 in the morning, and waited for the customary time at the health clinic before he was released to his home feeling well. Sometime later, the…
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COVID-19 vaccine not for sale to Nigerians – PTF Coordinator
The National Coordinator of Presidential Taskforce (PTF) on COVID-19 Sani Aliyu says the COVID-19 vaccine will be administered to Nigerians free when vaccination begins. Aliyu made this known on Wednesday in a monitored interview on Channels Television. He also revealed plans by the Nigerian government on delivering and administering the vaccine and gave the assurance…
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VIDEO: US President-Elect Biden Receives COVID-19 Vaccine On Live TV
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. received the coronavirus vaccine on live television on Monday at the Christiana Hospital in Newark, Del., sending a message to Americans across the country that the vaccine is safe to take. “Left’s good,” he told the nurse practitioner who administered the vaccine, rolling up the sleeve of his black long-sleeve…
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BREAKING: Nigeria will receive 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine early 2021 – FG
The federal government has assured Nigerians it has commenced the process for receiving 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine in early 2021. The information was made public by the Executive Secretary, National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Faisal Shuaib, executive at the presidential task force on COVID-19 media briefing in Abuja on Thursday. He said…
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Trump pressures authorities to develop COVID-19 vaccine before presidential poll
U.S. President Donald Trump put pressure on the authorities to develop and approve a vaccine for the novel coronavirus in a tweet on Saturday. “The deep state, or whoever, over at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is making it very difficult for drug companies to get people in order to test the vaccines and…
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Over $100bn needed to access COVID-19 vaccine – WHO
The World Health Organisation, WHO, has disclosed that over a “$100 billion” is needed to ensure global access to the COVID-19 vaccine when available. WHO’s Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus disclosed this during a press conference in Geneva Switzerland, NAN reports. He, however, stated that money was small when compared to the $10 trillion spent by some…