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Research Paper

Nigerian media coverage of medical progress on the development of COVID-19 vaccine

Chika Euphemia AsogwaDepartment of Mass Communication, Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, NigeriaCorrespondence[email protected] [email protected]
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Pages 2421-2426 | Received 10 Sep 2020, Accepted 22 Jan 2021, Published online: 11 Mar 2021

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