Tag: AstraZeneca vaccine

How I felt after receiving AstraZeneca vaccine – Nigerian journalist Olumide Iyanda

Fostino Babatunde

  A Nigerian frontline journalist and Publisher of QED, Mr. Olumide Iyanda, is one of the first set of journalists who received the AstraZeneca vaccine jab in the country. He shared an independent practical experience about his feelings before and after taking the jab during the Platforms Africa e-Discourse. Excerpts; What is your view about COVID-19 and its threat to human existence? COVID an infectious disease that may make you fall sick. Or, as seen in some cases, lead to fatality. I know positive people who showed no symptoms. I…

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Why 15 Countries Suspended AstraZeneca Vaccine: Here is the Answer + List

Wonuola Olujobi

  Over 15 countries have, at the last count, slammed a sispension on the use of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine while others particularly Nigeria continue to vaccinate their citizens with the same jab. Statistics from the Nigerian government showed that over 800 people, including President Muhammadu  Buhari and his vice, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, have received the vaccine in the country as at Tuessay, March 16, 2021. The suspension, though temporary, was implemented over fears the AstraZeneca vaccine might have caused some recipients to develop blood clots. Several countries, mostly European, have…

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COVID-19: 20 African Nations To Get Vaccines Next Week

Aoko Benjamin

  Here is why safety of patients infected by South African variant of COVID-19 may not be guranteed by the AstraZeneca vaccine doses. The distribution of coronavirus vaccine across the African continent is to begin next week, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Thursday. Africa CDC chief, John Nkengasong, said doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine would be distributed to around 20 countries and that health-care workers would be prioritised in the inoculation programme. South Africa has replaced the AstraZeneca vaccine it initially purchased with a…

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