Category: Eliminating Viruses From The Earth

Nigeria’s COVID-19 response is the fourth-best in the world according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). This was disclosed by its Country Representative, Dr Walter Mulombo, spoke in Abuja at an event on the arrival of the first consignment of 177,600 doses of the Johnson and Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine yesterday in Abuja. The country […]

Buhari and his delegation in London President Muhammadu Buhari and members of his delegation to the United Kingdom are to go on isolation after spending about two weeks in London. This is coming after the Nigerian High Commissioner in UK, Ambassador Sarafa Tunji Isola, who was seen in close contact with the President on his […]

Photo by Donat SorokinTASS via Getty Images Russia on Saturday recorded its highest daily coronavirus death toll for a third day running, as the country continues to struggle with the Delta variant amid sluggish vaccination rates. A government tally showed 819 fatalities over the past 24 hours and 22,144 new cases. Russia, the fourth worst-hit […]

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), which facilitated the procurement of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J), Janssen Pharmaceuticals’ vaccine, says the vaccine costs Nigeria $7.50 as against $10 per dose. The bank’s Regional Chief Operating officer, Mr Abdoulaye Kone, who disclosed this in an interview on Thursday, in Abuja, said that the country would be procuring […]

Minister of Health Dr. Osagie Ehinare (left); Director General, NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye; Executive Secretary, National Primary Health Care, Dr. Faisal Shuaib and Director General, NCDC, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu at a press briefing on the activities of the ministry and agencies at the State House, Abuja…yesterday. Photo: Philip Ojisua   No generalised lockdown for now, govt […]

Three new candidate drugs are being tested in the latest phase of global Solidarity clinical trials to find effective treatments against COVID-19, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Wednesday. The therapies — artesunate, imatinib, and infliximab — will be tested on hospitalised COVID-19 patients in 52 countries under the Solidarity PLUS programme. There have […]

The Federal Government on Wednesday says consistent testing and non-compliance to non-pharmaceutical interventions are responsible for high reported cases of COVID-19 at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camps. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said in Abuja that scaling up of COVID-19 testing in various orientation camps across the country […]

Unveils modalities for deployment of Moderna Lagos records 42 COVID-19 deaths in eight days Experts explain why fully vaccinated persons still get infected As concerns mount over the different brands of vaccine being imported amid resurgence in confirmed cases of COVID-19, the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), yesterday, said it was, in conjunction with […]

Lagos state witnessed an upsurge in daily new COVID-19 cases as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control(NCDC), reported additional 422 infections on Aug 9, 2021. The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Tuesday morning. It confirmed that the additional 422 cases were from nine states and the FCT. The agency said that […]

Nigeria has announced August 16 as the new date for the beginning of the second phase of COVID-19 vaccination in the country. The phase will see the country administering the Moderna vaccine doses donated by the United States. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, disclosed the new date on Monday while featuring on […]