Tag: VACCINATION

M-pox vaccination to begin on Oct. 8 – NPHCDA

Aminu Imam
FG on M pox3

The National Primary Health Care Development Agency, (NPHCDA), has announced that Mpox vaccinations in Nigeria will tentatively commence on October 8, 2024. Its Head of Public Relations, Remi Adeleke, disclosed this on Friday, stating that vaccine deployment is scheduled between October 3 and 6, 2024. This timeline aligns with the three to six weeks required by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to complete regulatory procedures, including sampling, traceability, and laboratory analysis. Given the limited availability of doses—only 9,980 of the Jynneos Mpox vaccine—Adeleke explained…

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India’s COVID-19 vaccination drive hits bump due to app glitch

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

India’s COVID-19 vaccination drive hit a bump on the first day due to glitches in an app called Co-Win. Co-Win is being used to coordinate the campaign, according to several officials involved in the immunisation programme. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched what his government has described as the “world’s largest vaccination programme” on Saturday to rein in the pandemic in India. India has reported the second-highest number of cases after the United States. Co-Win, developed by the government, is supposed to help by alerting healthcare workers who are first in…

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Pakistan begins vaccination drive against polio

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Pakistan on Monday launched a vaccination drive against polio to cover the immunity gap caused by COVID-19 pandemic related disruptions to the programme aimed at eradicating the disease. The five-day immunisation drive, the third such national campaign so far in 2020, will see over 39 million children under the age of five vaccinated. “We are determined to close the immunity gap in children which had unfortunately widened because of disruption of essential services due to COVID-19 pandemic,’’ said Dr Faisal Sultan, Special Assistant to Prime Minister on National Health. Around…

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