The new agreement between the two firms represented an expansion of the original agreement announced between the two companies in September 2020.
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Commissioner for Health, Dr. Tomi Coker, made this known in a chat with Press Officers, PHCDB, Sola Ogunbanwo and Yemisi Fashola in Abeokuta, stated that residents who are due for the second dose of the vaccine should visit the nearest vaccination site to receive it.
Since the first Omicron cases were detected on Nov. 27 in the United Kingdom, Johnson has imposed tougher restrictions and on Sunday cautioned that the variant could overcome the immune defences of those inoculated with two shots of vaccines.
According to a statement by the Press Officers, Ogun State Primary Health Care Development Board, Adesola Ogunbanwo and Yemisi Fashola, indicated that the State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Tomi Coker, disclosed this in Abeokuta during a press briefing with newsmen, adding that the state had so far recorded no fatal adverse effects following Immunisation among vaccinated persons.
Abayomi disclosed this on Sunday through its official Instagram account @profakinabayomi while giving the state’s Vaccination Update as at Dec. 10.
The observation was part of the key points emanating from a one day State level media engagement meeting on Covid-19 organised by Ebonyi State Ministry of Health on Thursday, in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development-funded Integrated Health Program, IHP.
This policy, it said, applies to those fully vaccinated with AstraZeneca (including Covidshield), Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson and Johnson.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made this known while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Wednesday.
As the health authority announced on Friday, 89 per cent of people over 65, the population group that has mainly received AstraZeneca in Sweden, are now fully vaccinated.
The centre disclosed this on its official website on Thursday morning.
The company said the participants in the trial were unvaccinated adults older than 18 years with confirmed exposure to a person with the coronavirus within the past eight days.
Dr. George Ugwu, the Executive Secretary of the Enugu State Primary Health Care Development Agency, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria in Enugu on Thursday.
The President of NIDS, Prof. Dimie Ogoina, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja, allaying fears about the coronavirus vaccines.
Dr. Munirat Afolayan, Head of Public Health Department at the NNRH, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Lagos.
In a newspaper article, the leaders, including the German chancellor and French president, said Covid posed the biggest challenge since World War Two.
The government said this in reaction to a question from a Twitter user, @idowudotun, who wondered why the state was yet to commence vaccination even after many of its citizens have completed the registration to make them eligible for the state’s vaccination exercise.
The agency said the warning was imperative to ensure people did not risk being vaccinated with fake Astrazeneca vaccine.
The two, both hospital staff members, had received the AstraZeneca vaccine less than 14 days before getting ill, the authority that runs public hospitals in Copenhagen said.
The state Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, made this known through his verified Twitter account @ProfAkinAbayomi, on Thursday while giving the state’s COVID-19 Vaccination update for March 16.
Commissioner for Health, Dr Bashir Bello, made this known on Wednesday in Ibadan while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the weekly state’s Executive Council meeting.