The Biden administration is expected on Wednesday to announce the purchase of additional courses of a Covid-19 treatment manufactured by drugmaker AstraZeneca.
KUALA LUMPUR: The website for AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine registrations did not crash due to heavy user traffic during the second round of opt-in on May 26, said Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba.
President Muhammadu Buhari receives the COVID-19 vaccination from his chief personal physician, Dr Suhayb Rafindadi Sannusi at the State House Abuja on 6 March 2021. PHOTO: SUNDAY AGHAEZE.
Nigeria’s rollout of the coronavirus vaccine had begun – and almost 300,000 of us are already considerably safer as a result.
This should be grounds for national pride and renewed optimism- but 1 in 4 Nigerians don’t trust the government enough to get vaccinated. x
A recent survey from the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention found that only 76% of Nigerians are willing to take the vaccine.
Almost a quarter are not.
To put that in context, there is a deadly disease that has now taken the lives of 2,800,000 people around the world and damaged the health of at least 165,000 Nigerians. The government is offering all of us the medicine we need to stay safe and healthy – for free – but 1 in every 4 Nigerians do not want it.