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Steps To Get The Covid-19 Vaccine In Nigeria

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Nigeria has just received a total of 3.92 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine today, March 2nd. Following this development, the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) launched an online portal and announced the guidelines for registrations. AstraZeneca vaccine arrive Nigeria What Is Astrazeneca Vaccine The University of Oxford produces the AstraZeneca vaccine. It is a vaccine that aims to protect against COVID-19. A single shot of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is highly protective, reducing the chance of someone getting ill and needing hospital treatment by more than 80%. How It Is Made It is made from a weakened version of a common cold virus (known as an adenovirus) from chimpanzees. It has been modified to look more like coronavirus - although it can't cause illness. Read Also :  The problem with Covid-19 vaccine design and development Scientists take genes for the spike protein from the surface of the coronavirus and put it into a weakened version of a c...

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