COVID-19 Vaccine

BEVERLY HILLS, February 16, (THEWILL) - Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, has said that COVID-19 vaccines carry a certain amount of risk. Nigeria is expected to receive its first batch of allocated doses by the end of February. On February 11,...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 16, (THEWILL) - South Africa today said it would offer its doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to the African Union (AU) after scrapping their use due to efficacy concerns. The country suspended its vaccine rollout (meant to...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 15, (THEWILL) - Zimbabwe has received its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced. The President, today, shared photos of a cargo plane with COVID-19 vaccines while making the announcement via his official Twitter handle. He...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 14, (THEWILL) - The age-long rivalry that many thought had long been buried, between the richest man in Africa, Aliko Dangote and fellow Forbes billionaire, Abdul Samad Rabiu, was re-ignited on Monday February 8. Rather than their...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 11, (THEWILL) - An American company, specialising in medical product delivery, Zipline, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Kaduna State government to facilitate the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, using drones. The South San Francisco, California-based company,...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 11, (THEWILL) - Europe’s race to manufacture COVID-19 vaccines must accelerate to catch up with scientific breakthroughs and outpace emerging variants, European Commission chief, Ursula Von der Leyen said on Wednesday. “We underestimated the difficulty related to...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 11, (THEWILL) - A new Israeli COVID-19 drug, Allocetra, offers hope to substantially alleviate serious coronavirus symptoms in as little as two hours. The drug, which has successfully completed its second phase of trials, treats the extreme...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 08, (THEWILL) - South Africa has shelved plans to vaccinate frontline healthcare workers with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after a pilot trial found it might be powerless preventing the COVID-19 variant prevailing in the country. “The AstraZeneca vaccine...

... As Buhari Lauds AU Acquisition Task Team BEVERLY HILLS, February 07, (THEWILL) - Nigeria is set to receive the largest allocation of 16 million doses out of the 88 million AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine doses allocated to African...

BEVERLY HILLS, January 31, (THEWILL) - An Oxford professor who was part of the team that developed the Covid-19 vaccine with AstraZeneca, has disputed comments by French President, Emmanuel Macron appearing to question the efficacy of the jab in...