COVID-19 Vaccine

August 24, (THEWILL) - The COVID-19 vaccine project sponsored by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) would be ready for first clinical trial in November this year. This was made known in a press statement on Wednesday, signed by the acting...

February 12, (THEWILL) - The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has began probe into reports of heavy menstrual bleeding and absence of menstruation from women who had received COVID vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna. According to EMA, it's Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee...

January 10, (THEWILL) - Greece has donated about one million doses of the Johnson and Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine to Nigeria as the Federal Government moves to ensure more citizens are vaccinated against the disease. A delegation from the European...

December 01, (THEWILL) - Some federal civil servants on Grade Level 12 and below were barred from entering the Federal Secretariat on Wednesday for failure to present proof of vaccination against COVID-19. There was a massive turn up of the workers...

October 23, (THEWILL) - President Muhammadu Buhari has tasked Nigerian universities with conducting researches targeted at discovering a vaccine for COVID-19. Speaking at the grande finale of the 36th convocation ceremony of the University of Ilorin in Ilorin on Saturday, President...

August 19, (THEWILL) - The Akwa Ibom State Government has taken delivery of 63,336 doses of the Modena vaccine, saying it is set for an immediate full roll out Vaccination of its citizens as the state is currently battling...

August 12, (THEWILL) - The Federal Government on Thursday took delivery of 177,600 doses of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. The single-shot J&J vaccine was acquired through the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT), with support from Afrexim bank. According to the...

July 25, (THEWILL) - The European Medicines Agency has approved use of Moderna’s Covid vaccine for children aged between 12 and 17. It is the second Covid jab to be approved for adolescents by the EU’s medicines authority.  In May, the...

June 22, (THEWILL)- U.S. President Joe Biden has announced plans to allocate 55 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the world, noting that 10 million doses would be shared to African countries. Biden, in a statement, said the doses were...

BEVERLY HILLS, June 03, (THEWILL) – The Federal Government on Thursday said the production of the first local vaccine for COVID-19 was being threatened by its inability to raise the $1.5 million cost of clinical trials. Health Minister, Dr. Osagie Ehanire,...