Category: Eliminating Viruses From The Earth

Says people vaccinated, or recovered from the virus, could be infected, or re-infected The World Health Organisation (WHO) says there is now “consistent evidence” that the Omicron variant was outpacing Delta, as COVID-19 continues to account for around 50,000 deaths worldwide every week. WHO Director General, Tedros Ghebreyesus told journalists at the agency’s Headquarters in […]

Director General, NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Christianah Adeyeye • Adeyeye says NAFDAC working with WHO to attain ML4, enable approved products to be traded globally The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has assured that the country will soon begin manufacturing her own vaccines and that products approved by the agency will […]

NCDC team. Photo; Twitter/Chikwei Rivers State took the lead in the country’s COVID-19 infections as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) logged 828 new infections on Saturday. The Rivers state capital, Port Harcourt, a metropolis that is considered the commercial center of the Nigerian oil industry, registered 188 infections out of the 828 declared […]

Densely-populated Lagos State is driving Nigeria’s COVID-19 surge as the country registered 1,584 new infections on Friday. Lagos, the smallest state in Nigeria has a land mass of 1,171.28 square kilometres and an estimated population of between 17.5 million and 21 million as of 2020. About 6,871 people live in every square kilometre of Lagos […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday tasked Nigerian universities to come up with a cure for Coronavirus (COVID-19). Represented by Mr John Mairafi, a Director with the National Universities Commission (NUC), Buhari gave the charge in Oye-Ekiti, at the 5th and 6th convocation ceremony of the Federal University (FUOYE). He charged scholars in universities to engage […]

Canada announced Friday the lifting of a ban on foreign travelers from Nigeria and nine other African countries. The country also reimposed testing, warning that the Omicron variant of Covid-19 risks quickly overwhelming hospitals. Apart from Nigeria, the travel restriction on flights is also lifted on South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Eswatini, Namibia, Malawi […]

The Federal Government on Thursday warned Nigerians to take responsibility for their health as COVID-19 cases continued to rise in the country. The Minister of State for Health, Dr Olorunmimbe Mamora, who stated this in an interview with one of our correspondents, said, among other measures, there was the need for Nigerians to take responsibility […]

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), says it has been estimated that the COVID-19 pandemic cost the World 11 trillion dollars. The president, Afreximbank, Prof. Benedict Oramah, said this at the ongoing first virtual International Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA 2021) on Thursday. African Union (AU) and the Africa Centre for Disease Control (Africa […]

No fewer than 107 inbound passengers to Nigeria have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last one week. This was indicated in the data obtained from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control website on Wednesday. The website also showed that 703 cases of the virus were recorded in the country on Tuesday. Checks showed that […]

President Muhammadu Buhari and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson • UAE backs down, grants Air Peace seven slots in Dubai Airport as parties meet in Abuja • Omicron now in 77 countries, spreading at rate never seen before, WHO boss warns • Lagos commences prosecution of defaulters of COVID-19 guidelines • Omicron, Delta cause 83% […]