Nigeria prioritising four COVID-19 vaccines
NIGERIA is prioritising the AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, the official heading Nigeria’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign has
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Vaccine-starved Namibia receives boost
NAMIBIA, whose COVID-19 inoculation programme was halted by a lack of vaccines, has received a boost with the arrival of
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Morocco’s to produce vaccine
MOROCCAN pharmaceutical firm Sothema will soon start production of five million doses a month of China’s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine in
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Equatorial Guinea buys 500 000 vaccines
EQUATORIAL Guinea has purchased 500,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses from China’s Sinopharm, according to its health ministry. “At the Beijing airport,
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Don’t panic, says Zim govt
ZIMBABWE’S government has urged citizens not to panic because it had enough COVID-19 vaccines for those needing a second shot
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WHO approves Sinopharm
STEPHANIE NEBEHAY THE World Health Organization (WHO) has approved for emergency use a COVID-19 vaccine from China’s state-owned drugmaker Sinopharm,
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Assessment of vaccines to be finalised
THE World Health Organization expects to release its assessments for emergency use listing of the two main Chinese vaccines for
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Egypt approves vaccine for emergency use
EGYPT’S drug authority said on Monday it had granted approval to China’s Sinovac coronavirus vaccine for emergency use. Egypt has
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Sinopharm waits for trial results
CHINA National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) will need to assess results from overseas Phase III clinical trials to decide whether its
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China donates 400,000 vaccines to Niger
CHINA has donated 400,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Sinopharm to Niger, the first vaccines the West African
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