Nigerian authorities Monday announced a new set of COVID-19 restrictions as many countries continue to battle the resurgence of the virus. The new measures, which come into effect on Tuesday, ban gatherings of more than 50 people while access to government buildings will be denied to anyone not wearing facemask. Bars and nightclubs are to […]
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India is currently undergoing the world’s worst Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, with 403,738 fresh infections and 4,092 deaths in the past 24 hours, the government said on Sunday. The numbers brought the overall caseload to over 22 million and the death toll to 242,362 in the country reeling under the second wave of the pandemic, data […]
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The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has called on Nigeria and other countries to prioritise seafarers and aircrew in the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination programmes. This was contained in the United Nations bodies’ joint statement last week, urging member states to prioritise seafarers and aircrew in the national COVID-19 vaccination programmes. This comes amidst concerns that […]
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Photo: Moise Vaghemi (L), 33, an Ebola survivor who works as a nurse, gets dressed in a protective suit as he prepares to start his shift at an Ebola treatment centre (ETC) in Katwa, near Butembo, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, October 2, 2019. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra/File Photo The Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday […]
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India is setting almost-daily records for new infections and deaths as the virus crisis engulfs overstretched hospitals in cities and spreads into rural regions. Image Credit: AFP More emergency medical aid from foreign donors to alleviate a dire oxygen shortage arrived in India on Sunday, as Covid-19 deaths in the South Asian nation rose to […]
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Nigeria on Sunday banned passengers from Brazil, India and Turkey as the countries battle third wave of coronavirus with effect from May 4. People who have visited the country within 14 days preceding their travel to Nigeria will also not be allowed entry. The Nigerian authorities said airlines that fail to comply with measures will […]
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By Charles Onunaiju Last September, the federal government through the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on Covid-19 was given the sample of the first Covid-19 vaccine by a delegation headed by the Russian ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Alexey Sherbashin. The sample of the then newly developed and first vaccine, Russian made Sputnik-V was handed over to […]
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Eminent virologist and Chairman, Expert Review Committee on COVID-19, Prof. Oyewale Tomori, has urged the Federal Government and aviation agencies to scrutinise airlines conveying passengers from India to prevent the spread of a deadly COVID-19 strain from the country to Nigeria. India is currently witnessing what has been described as a devastating second wave of […]
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The Chief Judge of Katsina State, Justice Musa- Danladi Abubakar, has granted bail to 256 offenders and released seven others in correctional centers in the state. Justice Abubakar told journalists after the exercise on Monday that he embarked on the visitation to correctional centers across the state with a view to decongesting them and enabling […]
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Fake doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine were being sold in Mexico and Poland for as much as $2,500 a shot, the US drug maker and an official confirmed. At a clinic in Mexico some 80 people received bogus vaccines, which appeared to have been physically harmless though offered no protection against the potentially deadly […]
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