Former vice president Atiku Abubakar was seen in viral social media photos receiving what is believed to be a vaccine against the dreaded coronavirus in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, making him the first known Nigerian to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The photos showed the former vice president being injected by health officials in the…
Spain is to set up a registry of people who refuse to be vaccinated against coronavirus and share it with other European Union nations, the health minister has said. Salvador Illa said the list would not be made accessible to the public or to employers. He said the way to defeat the virus was “to…
Biden spoke out as millions of Americans saw their jobless benefits expire after Trump threw a long-awaited pandemic aid package into doubt—demanding lawmakers approve $2000 instead of the $600 direct payments to US taxpayers. “This abdication of responsibility has devastating consequences. Today, about 10 million Americans will lose unemployment insurance benefits,” Biden said in a statement. The stimulus measure…
We also note that most of the efforts to discover and produce vaccines for the virus have been concentrated in Europe and America, China and Russia, and that virtually all the proposed doses of Covid-19 vaccines have already been bought by wealthy countries, leaving little hope for Africa and other developing countries to access these…
Canadian health officials have authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, hailing the development as a “critical milestone” and paving the way for the inoculant to be administered across the country. The authorization on Wednesday comes a day after the United Kingdom became the first country to begin giving the vaccine to the public. Emergency use authorization…
This is Dr. Stella Immanuel’s new video on her take concerning the covid-19 vaccine that is to be rolled out to citizens. This is the sequel to her previous claims that Covid-19 is curable with some listed drugs without the use of the vaccine. Check out this video below and also check more of people’s…
Batches of the world’s first coronavirus vaccine are arriving at dozens of UK hospitals as medics prepare to administer the first doses to patients With the world watching the launch of the immunisation programme, early images from south London show staff “unloading doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab from boxes at Croydon University Hospital before placing…
The Director General of World Health Organization, WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said yesterday that a vaccine would not by itself stop the coronavirus pandemic. Ghebreyesus stated this on a day US biotech firm, Moderna, announced that its experimental vaccine against COVID-19 was 94.5 percent effective, marking a second major breakthrough in the vaccine hunt. Pfizer…
A 103-year-old Mexican woman suffering from a chronic pulmonary disease has survived a bout of COVID-19, the Mexican Social Security Institute announced. The institute (IMSS), which is part of the Mexican healthcare system, said the woman, identified only as Dona Maria, had been hospitalised for 11 days. She had tested positive for the virus but,…
Chevron’s Nigeria unit has disclosed her plans to cut 25% of its workforce to become more efficient and reduce operating costs, the latest sign demand for global oil is not steady under covid -19 pandemic and new restrictions to contain it. “The aim is to have a business that is competitive and an appropriately-sized organization,”…
