The number of coronavirus-associated deaths in Lagos State increased to 181 on Wednesday with four more fatalities, said the state’s Health Commissioner, Prof Akin Abayomi.
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Guinea declares first Ebola outbreak since 2016
A girl gets inoculated with an Ebola vaccine in Goma, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Guinea has declared an Ebola outbreak for the first
Nasarawa: Resident doctors embark on strike
Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), Nasarawa State branch, Monday commenced a three day warning strike to press home their demands despite government plea. The association
Vaccine: BUA pays for one million doses of AstraZeneca
BUA has paid for one million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines for Nigeria through the AFREXIM Vaccine programme in partnership with CACOVID. The doses, expected
Vaccine: Zimbabwe to get 200 000 doses from China’s Sinopharm for free
Zimbabwe will receive 200 000 free doses of China’s Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Thursday, after China and Russia offered shots against
COVID – 19: South Africa orders 20 million Pfizer vaccines
South Africa has secured 20 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, the health minister told a Sunday newspaper. Africa’s worst virus-hit country has yet
Buhari signs law criminalizing non-wearing of facemasks
• Offenders to serve six months jail term President Muhammadu Buhari has signed a law to check the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. It criminalises non-wearing
COVID-19 Vaccine: Local vaccine production ’ll take five years – Gates
By Robert EgbeThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) said it will take no fewer than five years to build local vaccines production capacity in
COVID – 19: Yabatech Director is dead
Yaba College of Technology (Yabatech) has announced the death of the College Director, Academic Planning Unit, Mr. M.A.O Omoighe, from COVID-19 complications. It also ordered
COVID – 19: NCDC records 964 new cases
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control recorded 1,617 new cases of the CoronaVirus Disease (COVID-19) in the country. Nigeria records 1,617 new COVID-19 infections, 14