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Ghana to receive compensation for any harmful side effect of COVAX vaccine

Ghana is among 92 countries that will receive a no-fault compensation claim of serious side effects for people who are vaccinated with a COVID-19...
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COVID-19: Ashanti Region to receive two million vaccines

About two million COVID-19 vaccines will be sent to the Ashanti Region, Regional Director of Health, Dr Emmanuel Tinkorang, has said.This comes after Ghana...
600K doses of Covid-19 vaccines arrive in Ghana

600,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines arrive in Ghana [Video]

Ghana is to begin Covid-19 vaccination on March 2 as the government takes delivery of 600,000 AstraZeneca doses today.The Minister for Health-Designate,...

Ghana to receive first consignment of coronavirus vaccines today

The Government of Ghana will today Wednesday, February 24, 2021, receive the first batch of 600,000 AstraZeneca Coronavirus vaccine at the Kotoka International Airport...

COVID-19: Ghana to receive first batch of vaccines on Feb 24

The Government of Ghana will on Wednesday, February 24, 2021, receive the first batch of the coronavirus vaccines at the Kotoka International Airport in...

COVID-19 vaccines safe, effective – FDA assures public

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says adequate safety and quality assurance has been done in authorising the two COVID-19 vaccines to be administered...

Coronavirus: Govt officials will publicly take doses of vaccines

The Information Minister-designate has noted that government officials will publicly take doses of the Covid-19 vaccines before the mass vaccination exercise.Kojo Oppong Nkrumah explained...
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S. African president receives first vaccine shot as immunization starts

South Africa will administer its first COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, with President Cyril Ramaphosa to get the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) shot alongside health...

Zimbabwe receives first batch of Covid-19 vaccine

Zimbabwe has received its first 200,000 doses of the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine, donated by China.The consignment arrived on Monday morning in a Air Zimbabwe...

Ghana to receive COVID-19 vaccines by mid-March – Agyemang-Manu

Ghana is expected to take delivery of 350,000 AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines by mid-March under the United Nations COVAX facility.The Health Minister-designate, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, made...

Why Nigeria was removed from WHO vaccine-sharing program

Nigeria expected to receive not fewer than 100,000 doses of Pfizer’s vaccines by the end of January or at the beginning of February but...

Ghana listed for 2.4m doses of Covid-19 vaccine by this date…

There is hope in Ghana’s fight against the novel coronavirus pandemic.Since President Nana Akufo-Addo’s announcement of steps to secure a vaccine, the first substantial...
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Covid-19: Novavax vaccine shows 89% efficacy in UK trials

A new coronavirus vaccine has been shown to be 89.3% effective in large-scale United Kingdom (UK) trials.The Novavax jab is the first to show...

African countries to start Coronavirus vaccine pre-orders

The Africa Medical Supplies Platform (AMSP) has begun its Covid-19 vaccines pre-order programme for all African Union member states.The pre-order, being done on behalf...
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Moderna becomes third Covid vaccine approved in the UK

A third Covid vaccine has been approved for use in the UK.It is made by US company Moderna and works in a similar way...

Covid-19: Two million vaccine doses to be supplied each week from mid-January

Two million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will be supplied each week by the middle of January, according to a report, despite a warning...

Covid Pfizer vaccine approved for use next week in UK

The UK has become the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for widespread use.British regulator, the MHRA, says the...

Covid-19 vaccine developed by University of Oxford is 70% effective, large scale trial shows

The coronavirus vaccine, developed by the University of Oxford, is highly effective at stopping people from developing Covid-19 symptoms, a large trial shows.Interim data...

There’s a legitimate way to end coronavirus vaccine trials early, Fauci says

A COVID-19 vaccine could be available earlier than expected if ongoing clinical trials produce overwhelmingly positive results, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top...

UK signs deal for 60 milllion virus vaccine doses

The United Kingdom (UK) government has signed a fourth coronavirus vaccine deal, securing up to 60 million doses of an experimental treatment being developed...

Oxford researches feel COVID-19 pandemic will end on its own; won’t need a vaccine

Oxford researches feel COVID-19 pandemic will end on its own; won't need a vaccineIt has been over six months since we first heard of...

India’s second COVID-19 vaccine cleared for human trials

In some positive development, Indian pharmaceutical company, Zydus Cadila received the green signal from The Drug Controller General of India (DGCI) to start phase...

Who would be the first to get a Covid-19 vaccine?

Probably people in the country where the first effective vaccine is developed.About a dozen different vaccines are in various stages of testing worldwide, including...

Coronavirus: How long does it really take to get a vaccine ready? We explain...

Will we get a vaccine to fight COVID-19 this year?The world over recorded one of the biggest spikes in COVID-19 cases yesterday (June 23)...

Coronavirus vaccine: The first vaccine may not prevent you from getting COVID

Desperation for a way to keep economies from collapsing under the weight of Covid-19 could mean settling for a vaccine that prevents people from...

Coronavirus vaccine trial Phase 2 – who it involves and what it means for...

The second phase of the trial of the coronavirus vaccine tipped to be the ‘front runner’ in the fight against COVID-19 has started today.The first phase...

Scientists to produce up to 1bn doses of coronavirus vaccine from September

AstraZeneca has said it has the capacity to manufacture one billion doses of the University of Oxford 's potential Covid-19 vaccine and will begin supply in September.The pharmaceutical...

Here are the 9 top contenders for coronavirus vaccines

Here are the 9 top contenders for coronavirus vaccinesEven as countries toy with the idea of relaxing lockdown and restarting life in the COVID...
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Coronavirus vaccine will take ‘many months’ and ‘there are no guarantees’ one can be...

A coronavirus vaccine will take 'many months' and there are 'no guarantees' one will ever be found, ministers warned tonight.Business Secretary Alok Sharma gave the sobering warning at Downing...

Good news for fully vaccinated persons

The Foreign Ministry has announced that people who have been fully vaccinated with vaccines from the authorised European Medicines Agency (EMA) are now eligible...

COVID-19: Zoomlion commended for managing medical waste at vaccination centres

The Physician Assistant at Okrakwajo Health Centre in the Eastern Region, Madam Lydia Gordon, has praised Zoomlion Ghana Limited, following its role in the...

Full text: Akufo-Addo’s 26th address on measures to fight coronavirus

Fellow Ghanaians, good evening.I have not come into your homes for some time, because I had hoped that the next time I did so,...

Covid: Half of Australians in lockdown again to fight Delta outbreak

Anger is growing in Australia as 13 million people - about half the population - endure fresh lockdowns to quash Covid outbreaks.A third state...

COVID-19: Checkout countries on Nigeria’s ‘Red List’

Nigeria is adding South Africa to its "red list" of countries for which there are stringent restrictions for arriving passengers, officials said during a...

More than 100,000 receive second jab in 5 days

More than 100,000 people have received their second dose of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine as of Sunday, May 23, data from the Ghana Health...

Full text: Akufo-Addo’s 25th address on measures to deal with Covid-19 pandemic

I am embarking on a nine-day official working visit to France, Belgium and South Africa, as part of efforts being made to ensure our...

Our target is to vaccinate all Ghanaian -Akufo-Addo

President Akufo-Addo has reiterated that the government is making all necessary efforts to ensure that every Ghanaian is vaccinated against the Corona Virus Disease...

COVID-19: Akufo-Addo to address Ghanaians on measures against pandemic

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, will address the nation at 8:00 pm this Sunday, May 16, 2021, on the management of the coronavirus...
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Covid-19: GHS announces date for second doses roll-out

Ghana will on Wednesday, May 19 begin administering the second doses of Covishield, the Oxford AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, to the segmented groups who received...

Veteran award-winning journalist passes on

Media Consultant and three-times journalist of the year, Alhaji Razak El-Alawa, has reportedly passed on.Alhaji Razak, according to reports, passed around 10:30 pm on...