COVID-19 Vaccine

BEVERLY HILLS, January 27, (THEWILL) - Pfizer announced it is developing a booster to help its vaccine protect against new highly-infectious variants just hours after the first case of Brazil's 'super-COVID' was reported in the US. "Every time a new variant...

BEVERLY HILLS, January 24, (THEWILL) - Etisalat said it is making Sinopharm vaccine accessible to its employees across the United Arab Emirates and has kicked-off its free vaccination programme, in coordination with the Ministry of Health, for all eligible...

BEVERLY HILLS, January 21, (THEWILL) - Succour may soon come the way of Nigerians as the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) has said the country could assess COVID-19 vaccine by the end of February. The forum in a communique issued after a...

BEVERLY HILL, January 15, (THEWILL) - Nigeria will receive 10 million doses of coronavirus vaccine in March. Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, who disclosed this in a statement, said, the vaccines add to 100,000 expected doses of Pfizer vaccine. The statement did...

BEVERLY HILL, January 15, (THEWILL) - The Director-General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, has warned Nigerians not to take any vaccine except the ones approved by the agency. Adeyeye, at a briefing on Friday,...

BEVERLY HILL, January 15, (THEWILL) - U.S. President-elect, Joe Biden, has unveiled a $1.9 trillion stimulus package to jump-start the economy and speed up the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The package includes $415 billion to bolster the response to...

SAN FRANCISCO, January 12, (THEWILL) - Nigeria cannot produce COVID-19 vaccines at present because of the complex process involved, Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Faisal Shuaib, has said. Shuaib, who spoke at the Presidential...

SAN FRANCISCO, January 10, (THEWILL) - The National Orientation Agency (NOC), on Sunday sensitized Nigerians to the COVID-19 vaccine. Recently, controversies have dogged the vaccine, especially misconception propagated by religious bodies that the vaccine contains a microchip and other harmful...

SAN FRANCISCO, January 04, (THEWILL) - Sonia Acevedo, 41, suffered a 'sudden death' at home on New Year's Day, 48 hours after receiving Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. An autopsy is expected to take place later on Monday or on Tuesday, January...