Tag: Covid-19
Africa’s COVID-19 cases exceed 11.06m – Africa CDC
South Africa, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and Ethiopia are among the countries with the most cases on the continent, said the…
Pfizer’s COVID drug Paxlovid approved for emergency use
China has yet to approve any COVID-19 vaccines developed by foreign drugmakers but has vaccinated 87.1% of its entire population…
World hits 400m in COVID-19 cases
While cases have begun to level off in many countries, more than 2 million cases are still being reported on…
24 new COVID-19 cases confirmed at Beijing Olympics
The new figures bring the total number of COVID-19 infections detected at the Beijing Winter Games to 385 since Jan.…
Indonesia bans tourists arriving via Jakarta airport
The Southeast Asian country has seen a jump in cases, with more than 36,000 infections recorded on Sunday and the…
Honduran president Castro tests positive for COVID-19
The 62-year-old, who put the left back in power 12 years after her husband was ousted in a coup, was…
Unvaccinated people accounted for recent COVID-19 deaths in FCT – Minister
Also, the Secretary for Health and Human Services of the FCTA, Dr Abubakar Tafida, revealed that 433,000 people in the…
New Zealand records 243 new COVID cases
Health ministry data show 93% of those eligible above the age of 12 have been fully vaccinated and 49% of…
Daily COVID-19 cases tumble in Nigeria
Confirmed cases in Nigeria stood at 253,540 as at 4 February. Death toll remained unchanged at 3,136.
Singapore’s daily local COVID-19 cases triple
Authorities have previously warned that daily cases could rise to as many as 15,000 due to the highly transmissible Omicron…
900,000 Americans die of COVID-19 in new grim milestone
Experts said COVID-19 is not finished with the U.S. yet as the country may hit one million deaths by April.
Portugal to drop COVID test requirement for arriving passengers
The Interior Ministry, which is responsible for the entry of people into the country, could not immediately provide further details,…
Malaysia kicks off vaccination drive for children aged 5-11
The move to vaccinate the age group came as 147,282 were infected in the past six months, with 26 deaths…
Placenta may protect fetus from COVID: Study
The placenta may be sensing the maternal COVID-19 infection "and possibly putting in place this mechanism to help shed off…
32 new COVID cases related to Beijing Olympics confirmed
Seventeen cases were found in the "closed loop" bubble that separates all event personnel from the public.
Nigeria records 159 new COVID-19 infections
NCDC added that the additional infections brought the total number of discharged COVID-19 cases in the country to 229,650 and…
Hong Kong home affairs chief Caspar Tsui resigns
Caspar recently attended the birthday party of a delegate to China's legislature, where two of the nearly 200 guests tested…
New Zealand PM Ardern tests negative, still in isolation
Ardern took a COVID-19 test on Sunday after being exposed to an infected person on a flight to Auckland from…
Spotify to add content advisory to COVID podcasts
Britain's Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan had also expressed their concern to Spotify about COVID-19 misinformation on its platform
New Zealand PM Ardern self isolates
Ardern was exposed on Jan 22 during a flight to Auckland from the town of Kerikeri, the government said in…
Beijing Olympics: China records 36 new COVID-19 cases
The Games are to run from Friday to Feb. 20, its bubble sealed off from the rest of China, where…
Nigeria records 87 new COVID-19 infections
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported 87 new cases of COVID-19 in nine states and the Federal…
COVID-19 finally hits remote island of Kiribati, 2 years after pandemic outbreak
Kiribati and several other small Pacific nations were among the last places on the planet to have avoided any virus…
Fake news, disinformation on COVID human rights violation: Pope
Francis decried a spreading "infodemic," which he said was a distortion of reality based on fear, falsified or invented news…
646 people recover from Covid-19 in 24 hours – NCDC
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has reported that 646 people recovered from Coronavirus in the last 24 hours,…
German coach Anfang banned over fake COVID-19 vaccination paper
Anfang initially dismissed the allegations but stepped down as boss of second division Bremen in late November.
Lagos slashes cost of COVID-19 PCR test
Abayomi said the reduction in cost was to cut the expenses to be incurred by citizens who need the PCR…
Covid-19 not over, NCDC posts 7 deaths, 250 new cases
The NCDC said the seven deaths were backlogs from Ondo State between January 11 and 23.
COVID-19: Nigeria logs 2 deaths, 241 new infections
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Monday logged two Coronavirus-related deaths and 241 additional cases in eight states…
Nigeria records 228 new COVID-19 cases
462 people recuperated from the infection and were discharged from hospitals across the country on Sunday.