London, March 5, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Nigeria will commence the vaccination against COVID-19 on Friday, (Today) the Federal Government said-two days after it received the first batch of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines. The Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr Faisal Shuaib, announced this on Thursday at a presidential briefing held at the ...

London, March 5, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Health officials in Egypt have begun the second phase of a nationwide vaccination drive. The elderly and those with underlying medical conditions, are receiving their first doses of the Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine against the coronavirus. There are 40 vaccination centres countrywide. READ ALSO: COVAX FLOODS AFRICA WITH VACCINES TO CURTAIL EMERGING RESURGENCE ...

London, Feb. 25, 2021 (AltAfrica)-A new batch of AstraZeneca vaccines has arrived in Casablanca, Morocco, from India on February 24, according to converging local reports. The 1 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine were delivered aboard a Royal Air Maroc (RAM) aircraft, flying from Mumbai, India. The vaccine is produced by the Serum Institute of India ...

London, Feb. 22, 2021 (AltAfrica)-South Africa is rapidly moving to protect its highly valued healthcare workers through the Sisonke Early Access Programme, the health department said.  By the end of Saturday, more than 10 000 healthcare workers had already been successfully vaccinated, the Health Department said on Sunday. Vaccination RolloutThe number of health care workers ...

London, Feb. 18, 2021(AltAfrica)-Morocco’s COVID-19 epidemic continues its steady decline amid a vaccination campaign that has now hit over 2 million.  Morocco launched a nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Thursday, Jan 29, a day after receiving the first batch of Chinese vaccines Moroccan King Mohammed VI received the first shot of COVID-19 vaccine on as ...

London, Feb. 13, 2021 (AltAfrica)-There are early signs emerging in the COVID-19 data that vaccines are beginning to suppress deaths among the age groups most vulnerable to the virus. The new study comes on the day the World Health Organisation endorsed the use of Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine for adults of all ages as well as all ...

London, Jan. 29, 2021 (AltAfrica)-In Israel, initial Initial studies of covid-19 vaccination reveal a mix bag but a significant drop in infections and hospitalizations after just one dose, and very few cases after two. Experts caution that the results are preliminary. After getting two doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, three hundred recipients in Israel ...

London, Jan. 22, 2021 (AltAfrica)-WHO is worried that Africa is in danger of being left behind as countries in other regions open make considerable progress in covid-19 vaccination, strike bilateral deals and drive up vaccine prices. As of early this week, more than 40 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in 50 mostly high-income ...

London, Jan. 21, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Under the AU led vaccine initiative, Nigeria and other African countries will have to pay between $3 to $10 per COVID-19 vaccine dose to access 270 million shots secured by the African Union. This is according to a proposal on the plan prepared by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), Reuters reported Wednesday. READ ...

London, Jan. 14, 2021 (AltAfrica)- The African Union has secured a provisional 270 million additional COVID-19 vaccine doses from manufacturers for member states to supplement the COVAX programme, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Wednesday. African nations are grappling with a second wave of the novel coronavirus, infections rising to at least 3.1 million ...