Category: Eliminating Viruses From The Earth

A health worker administer the AstraZeneca COVID-19 to a man during the flag-off of COVID-19 Mass Vaccination by the Nigerian government in Abuja, Nigeria, on November 19, 2021. (Photo by Kola Sulaimon / AFP) • Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Kano, Kaduna top list of states with vaccinated persons • Lawyers divided over legality of forced vaccination […]

Ahead of the December 1 deadline for the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal civil servants, the Federal Government has warned employees who love their jobs to go and get vaccinated. Despite criticisms that have trailed the directive, which was first announced in September, the Federal Government, yesterday, insisted that its decision was in the best […]

Nigeria on Tuesday recorded zero new deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, as the death toll since its outbreak in the country currently stands at 2,973. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) disclosed this on its official Facebook handle Wednesday night, adding that 82 new cases were recorded across eight states of the federation. The […]

The novel Coronavirus has pushed some 30 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa into extreme poverty and dwarfed more than five years of progress, according to a report released, yesterday, at the ongoing Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore. The Bloomberg Economics Special Report, titled, “Long COVID: Jobs, Prices and Growth in the Enduring Pandemic,” noted […]

In this file photo a man wearing facemask and shield walks past the Pfizer headquarters in New York on March 11, 2021, one year after the pandemic was officially declared. – Pfizer sharply increased its projections for 2021 revenues and profits on May 4, 2021, citing much higher sales from its Covid-19 vaccine sales.The drugmaker […]

The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) says more that 5.8 million have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine since the commencement of the vaccination. Mrs Deborah Oladipo, the Kwara Coordinator of NPHCDA, disclosed this on Tuesday in Ilorin on the sidelines of the mass COVID-19 vaccination in the state. According to her, […]

The Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19, says efforts are continuing to introduce booster doses in the vaccination programme to build a healthy level of anti-bodies. Mr Boss Mustapha, Chairman, Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19, said at a news conference in Abuja, that there is currently an increase in case fatality which calls for […]

• Woos governors, goes against illegal vaccination cards •‘How expanded COVID-19 testing assisted Nigeria in managing pandemic’ The Federal Government is to engage the Nigeria Governors’ Forum on mass vaccination of citizens. It restated the December 1 deadline for federal civil servants to take the COVID-19 vaccines. The government also warned that vaccination records/certificates would […]

The World Health Organisation, in its latest report, revealed that the COVID-19 outbreak has threatened global progress against measles. In the report titled, ‘Global progress against measles threatened amidst COVID-19 pandemic’, the WHO stated that the progress towards the elimination of measles has declined as priority was being placed on the COVID-19 pandemic. The report, […]