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A CONSIGNMENT OF 500,000 Covid-19 vaccines donated by Ireland have arrived in Nigeria.
This is the first consignment of vaccines donated by Ireland through the Covax facility, which aims to guarantee fair and equitable vaccine access for every country in the world.
The donation of 500,000 Janssen vaccines form part of Ireland’s commitment to donate 1.3 million vaccine doses through the Covax facility.
The single dose Janssen vaccines will support the national vaccine rollout in Nigeria where the vaccination rate is below 2%.
The World Health Organization had indicated that a global vaccination rate of 70% is needed by mid-2022 if the world is to stem the spread of the disease and reduce the risk of further mutations in the virus.
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly noted that this is Ireland’s second significant vaccine donation in recent months following the recent delivery of 300,000 vaccines to Uganda.
In addition to the 1.3 million doses of vaccine Ireland has committed to sharing, it has also committed €7 million in financial support for Covax.
“I believe that everyone should have access to a Covid-19 vaccine, no matter where they live,” Minister for Overseas Development Aid Colm Brophy said.
“As we know from our own experience, vaccines significantly reduce risk of serious illness. Improving the numbers of people vaccinated worldwide is essential to getting the pandemic under control,” Brophy said.
“Ireland has a longstanding relationship with Nigeria and we are happy to support their efforts to keep their people safe,” he added.
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Well done Ireland, until the whole word is vaccinated none of us are safe.
@Una Dwyer: christ get a grip.
@Una Dwyer: sent them the “duds”should have sent them an equal amount of boosters as well lolololololol
Christ on a bike people are gullible
@PW: my son had j&j and while he still did get covid 2 months later, he wasn’t sick and has a poor immune system. So they are valuable and certainly better than none
@PW: Anyone who uses lolololololol in 2021 is an utter melt.
@Michelle Maher: do you think without it he would have been badly ill? I’d say probably not but my glass is full
@PW: So’s your head.
@PW: you retweet Gillian McKeith and call *other* people gullible? Jaysus.
@PW: Classic gimp moves…
@Mark Brown: good one Mark I’m devastated with that comment. Totally negates my comment. Back to the drawing board for aul PW
@PW: not the drawing board.. that’s tech-drawing class. . You need the science class. Second floor third door on right.. says “Science” on the door.
Hope that Prince put them to good use
That’s a good start. Donating the one-jab vaccine makes good sense too.
@Mark Brown: except its efficacy is 3 months.
@Mark Brown: Yes, these single doses will mean that 500k Nigerian people will be spared a second long trek to a vaccination centre. Good to read some good news. Sensible option.
Nigeria has 3,559,700 fully vaccinated, they aren’t far behind us: Ireland has 3,835,421 vaccinated. The only difference is sheer distance and the fact that this covers 76.97% of our population while Nigeria’s is 1.69% of their population, so they’ll have a massive rollout still ahead if they can get & distribute more supply.
@Fiona Fitzgerald: perhaps if their government put more into purchasing vaccines that weapons !
@Ciarán O’ Donoghue: It’s better than no vaccine which last time I checked provides 0 months.
@Mark Brown: lololololol
@Mark Brown: yep here Nigeria take our cast offs we’ve moved on to the booster turbo now should be back to normal any day now….., lol
@Ciarán O’ Donoghue: Not exactly true, but that’s what happens when you just read headlines about NIAC’s recommendation of a booster for vulnerable people after 3 months. They are still very effective at preventing serious illness and death and certainly nothing to be sniffed by poorer countries.
@Fandandi: bargain basement vaccines for the poor
@Ciarán O’ Donoghue: better than no vaccine for them.
@Spot the d0g: good job. No one is safe till we are all vaxxed. Now how about pressuring these pharma companies to waive their intellectual rights so we can make 12 billions doses quickly?
@Paul Whitehead: Where are the currently inactive vaccine plants that could manufacture vaccines once given permission?
@Spot the d0g: I’ll take things that didn’t happen for 800…only the mRNA are given as boosters and it’s AZ and J&J that ever led to rare blood clotting.
@Spot the d0g: Blood clots are more common with Covid than with vaccines
@Paul Whitehead: That’s been being tried since the vaccines first came out, even Avaaz couldn’t get it done.
@Paul Whitehead: No. They are right to not share. You’ve no idea how bad counterfeit drugs are in the poorer regions of the world. No false chemistry relied upon. Better to keep the producers to a minimum to those who have a lot to lose if they were to produce counterfeit drugs.
@Contrary Mary: you do realise that almost every vaccine you ever had was produced in developing countries like India? And still are. It’s possible to have strict compliance protocols in any lab or any country. We need to ramp this up before we get a variant that is not controlled by current vaccines.
Yes- he said in his email to me he can offer me one for €50 and that’s a massive 50% saving. I’m absolutely delighted.
I expect to find a prince in my spam folder selling me some premium JnJ
Why,
That should help the 200 million Nigerians
@Joanne Holland: ah yeah, you’re right, we shouldn’t bother. (eyerollemoji)
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