Tag: Covid-19
COHCTL petitions Lagos Assembly over high cost of COVID-19 test
A coalition has petitioned the Lagos State House of Assembly on the high cost of COVID-19 tests in private laboratories…
COVID-19 kills 5 Nigerians in 24 hours
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said that the number of COVID-19 recoveries from 36 states and Federal…
NCDC announces 96 new COVID-19 infections
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced 96 new cases of COVID-19 late on Wednesday, bringing the total number…
Bollywood actor Aamir Khan tests positive for COVID-19
Bollywood actor Aamir Khan has tested positive for COVID-19, the latest celebrity to contract the disease. In recent times, celebrities…
AstraZeneca vaccine 100 percent effective against COVID: U.S. agency
The Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine is 100 percent effective, far more than the modest 70 per cent efficacy that it claims.
131 new COVID-19 cases, zero death in Nigeria
By Abujah Racheal/Abuja The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced 131 new COVID-19 cases and no death on Monday.…
Breaking: Pakistan PM Imran Khan hit by COVID, two days after inoculation
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has tested positive for COVID-19, two days after he got the first jab of vaccination.
Nigeria records 130 COVID-19 infections, zero death for second day
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) recorded another day of zero death and 130 new cases of COVID-19.
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago partially shut amid COVID-19 outbreak
Former U.S. President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago golf resort in Palm Beach, Florida has been partially closed because of a COVID…
Lagos issues clarification on 1st phase of COVID vaccination exercise
Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi has said that the first phase of the ongoing COVID vaccination exercise…
Zero death, 135 new cases of COVID-19
COVID-19 cases have continued to ebb away in Nigeria going by the data released by the Nigeria Centre for Disease…
The role of citizens, religious leaders, medical practitioners in the spread of COVID-19
The second wave of Coronavirus (Covid-19) did not come as a surprise, as medical experts around the world had predicted…
COVID-19 latest: 91 percent recover in Nigeria, active cases crash
Close to 91 percent out of 161, 261 people infected by the COVID-19 in Nigeria, have recovered, the NCDC revealed…
NCDC announces 179 cases of COVID-19, two deaths
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) recorded 179 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, increasing infections in the country…
COVID-19 Vaccines: WHO admits people may have allergic reaction
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the agency is aware that a small fraction of people – around one person…
COVID-19 kills 3 Nigerians in 24 hours; 353 people discharged
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has discharged 353 people after being treated from various isolation centers across the…
Nigeria: COVID-19 infections at lowest level in months
The Nigeria Centre for Disease announced 120 new COVID-19 infections on Sunday, another indication that Nigeria is almost slipping out…
1,655 declared free of COVID-19, infections stuck on slow lane
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said 1,655 people were diagnosed free of the COVID-19 in the last 24…
President Magufuli COVID-19 doubter comatose with virus, flown to India
Tanzania's President John Magufuli, an avowed COVID-19 doubter is comatose in India, hit by COVID-19, main opposition leader, Tundu Lissu…
Nigeria’s active COVID-19 cases sink below 18,000
Active COVID-19 cases in Nigeria stood at 17,670, on Wednesday, down from the previous day’s 18,208, according to data released…
COVID-19 kills 4 in Kwara in hours, says NCDC
Four persons died in Kwara state of COVID-19 complications, according to data published by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control…
Jigawa, Edo lead in COVID-19 deaths as cases slowdown continues
The slowdown in COVID-19 cases in Nigeria continued on Monday, with 371 new cases announced by the NCDC, amid a…
COVID-19: Five dead, 29 infected in 72 hours in Edo
Casualty from COVID-19, has continued unabated in Edo State, as the dreaded disease has again killed persons in the last…
Breaking: Enugu tops COVID-19 daily chart, no report from Lagos
The eastern Nigerian state of Enugu registered 78 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, as NCDC announced 269 new infections.
FG denies budgeting N10.6bn for COVID-19 vaccine transportation
The Federal Government has dismissed a newspaper report that it will be expending N10.6 billion on the distribution of the…
COVID-19: ECOWAS recommends compensation for vaccine side effects
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Vaccine Taskforce has recommended compensation for citizens who suffer side effects or…
Video: Cyprian Ngon receives first COVID-19 vaccine in Nigeria
Dr. Cyprian Ngon became the first Nigerian to receive a jab of the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine procured by the Federal…
COVID-19 strikes five persons dead in Edo
Edo State Government on Thursday expressed worry over the rising fatality from cases of Coronavius in the state.
Lagos leads as COVID-19 kills 16 Nigerians in 24 hours
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 16 additional COVID-19 related deaths, bringing the total number of deaths…
COVID-19 pandemic may stretch beyond 2021: WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said it is unlikely the Covid-19 pandemic will come to an end by the end…