As global concern over possible side effects of the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine grows, the Federal Government has once again reassured Nigerians that the vaccine is safe for use. Speaking at a meeting with traditional and religious leaders in Abuja to clear the air on some misconception about the vaccine, the Minister of Health, Doctor Osagie Ehanire…
Some European countries that suspended the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine have resumed their rollout. These include Germany, France, Italy and Spain, while other countries are free to determine when to re-start their vaccination. This comes after the European Medicines Agency reviewed concerns over blood clots in thirteen EU states where the vaccine had been in…
Residents of Lagos State can now go to eighty-eight healthcare facilities across the state for Covid-19 vaccination. The centres are spread across the twenty local government areas and thirty-seven local council development areas, including military and police hospitals. The Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, said the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine would be administered in two doses, with twelve…
Two thousand and one persons are now known to have died from Covid-19 infection in Nigeria. The number includes eight infected persons who died yesterday, as confirmed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. The NCDC also said two thousand, one hundred and seventeen patients who recovered from Covid-19 were discharged in Lagos and Abuja yesterday. However;…
The health sector in Ondo State has been hit by industrial action, as members of the Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals withdraw their services. The union include medical laboratory scientists, physiotherapists, pharmacists, health information managers and officers, dieticians and radiographers. The leader of the group, Adeyinka Adedire, said their members are not happy about the non-payment…
It has been confirmed that President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will receive the vaccine on Saturday, March 6, 2021. This was confirmed by the Minister of State for Health, Olurunimbe Mammora who said the vaccination of the President and Vice President would be done in public. Mamora also said that members of the Federal…