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By Sola Ogundipe & Gabriel Olawale
The European Union Monday launched legal action against pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca over its COVID-19 vaccine delivery shortfalls that hampered efforts to kickstart inoculations across the bloc.
AstraZeneca has so far delivered about a quarter of the 120 million doses it had promised to the EU
According to EU spokesman Stefan De Keersmaecker: “The Commission has started last Friday a legal action against the company AstraZeneca on the basis of breaches of the advanced purchase agreement.
“Some terms of the contract have not been respected and the company has not been in a position to come up with a reliable strategy to ensure the timely delivery of doses.”
Nigeria reaches 1.04m persons with 1st dose of COVID-19 vaccine NPHCDA
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By Sola Ogundipe & Gabriel Olawale
One month into the national COVID-19 vaccination exercise in Nigeria, a total of 1,043,737 eligible Nigerians have so far been vaccinated with the first dose pf the vaccine, representing 51.9 per cent of the proportion vaccinated.
An update released by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA, on Wednesday showed that each of the 36 states including the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, had vaccinated at least 5,500 persons.
A breakdown of the NPHCDA update contained in an Electronic Management of Immunisation Data, EMID, System, further revealed that Lagos is leading in the exercise with 192,061 persons vaccinated.
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Patients lament as resident doctors’ strike persists
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By Sola Ogundipe & Gabriel Olawale
Patients have continued to bear the brunt of the strike called by the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, the body of medical doctors that constitute 70 percent of doctors in government and state-owned hospitals in Nigeria.
As the strike entered the eighth day yesterday, public hospitals that are normally beehive of activities have become a ghost town.
In Lagos, doctors in the state government hospitals are in total compliance with the directive of the national NARD to join the ongoing strike.
When Vanguard visited some of the affected hospitals in Lagos on Thursday, the wards were scantily occupied by patients, who were being attended to by consultants, nurses, and midwives.