Tag: COVID-19 vaccines
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Masari pledges to provide COVID-19 vaccines to corps members
Gov. Aminu Masari of Katsina State has pledged to provide adequate COVID-19 vaccines for all the corps members in the state. Masari made the pledge on Friday in Katsina when he received the Director-General of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) scheme, Brig.-Gen. Shu’aibu Ibrahim, who paid him a courtesy call at Government House,…
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China puts people’s lives and health in first place
China called for equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines worldwide and stressed the importance of improving the accessibility, affordability, and production of such vaccines in developing countries, including least developed countries, to save lives and end the pandemic as soon as possible.China made the appeal during a recent dialogue on COVID-19 on behalf of 63 countries…
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China administers nearly 140 million COVID-19 vaccines
China has administer 139.97 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines by April 4, 2021, said the country’s National Health Commission (NHC). China is working to ensure its vaccination efforts in major areas and key industries based on the overall plan of the country, inoculating the eligible population as widely as possible and progressing in stages, said…
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U.S. says will not be ‘constrained’ by WHO-linked vaccine effort
The White House said on Tuesday that the U.S. would not join a global effort aimed at providing equitable worldwide access to COVID-19 vaccines, citing the project’s link to a “corrupt” World Health Organisation (WHO). More than 170 countries are in talks to join the vaccine initiative, known as COVAX, which has already received a…
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China approves 2 experimental COVID-19 vaccines for clinical trials – Report
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage around the world, China has approved two experimental vaccines against COVID-19 for phase one and two clinical trials, Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday. These two new inactivated coronavirus vaccines were developed by the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products and a unit of Nasdaq-listed Sinovac Biotech in Beijing…