Tag: Covid-19
Nigeria records another sub-100 COVID-19 cases
Benue reported the highest number of new infections with 49 cases, followed by Enugu and Osun states with six cases…
COVID-19 scare in White House as press secretary Psaki isolates
Psaki, the main spokesperson for the White House, is the most high-profile person in the Biden administration known to have…
Nigeria’s COVID-19 cases plunge below 100
Nigeria's confirmed cases have now reached 211,887, with 203,080 discharged and 2,895 dead.
COVID-19: How I was banished from entering Nigeria – Soyinka
Noble laureate, Wole Soyinka narrated how he was denied his right to movement twice in France.
COVID-19: NCDC announces 166 additional infections
The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC), has announced an additional 166 Coronavirus (COVID-19) new infections from 14 states and…
COVID-19: Sanwo-Olu warns of imminent fourth wave
There is possibility of the fourth wave of Coronavirus (COVID-19) as the Yuletide approaches, Lagos State Government declared on Wednesday.
Nigeria records 159 new COVID-19 cases, no death
The centre said the FCT and Lagos recorded the highest numbers of new infections with both reporting 28 cases each.
Beijing Marathon postponed indefinitely
The Beijing Marathon has been postponed indefinitely after Sunday’s race was called off amid rising COVID-19 cases in China, the…
Covid-19 uptick in Delta as new cases climb up in Nigeria
Nigeria on Monday recorded 711 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total infections in the country to 211,171.
Covid-19: Nigeria records new cases in 8 states; 168 discharged
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has registered 89 new infections, 169 discharged, and one additional death from the…
COVID-19 restrictions extended again in Auckland
The city which has a population of about 1.7 million, has been under strict restrictions after a single case was…
Adeyinka reveals greatest achievement. He says the unexpected
Previously, Adeyinka thought creating one of the biggest platforms for comedy was his greatest achievement.
COVID-19: NCDC releases Nigeria’s lockdown data
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has released the Nigeria lockdown Data for the COVID-19 Africa Challenge.
COVID-19 Update: Nigeria records 6 deaths, 226 cases
With the update, the number of Nigeria's confirmed infections is now 208,630. Death toll has also risen to 2,767, while…
Africa’ s COVID-19 infections grossly undercounted: WHO warns
The WHO puts the number of all infections on the continent at 59 million, over seven times more than the…
86% of COVID-19 infections in Africa go unnoticed – WHO
About 86 percent of all coronavirus infections in Africa go unnoticed, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Thursday.
COVID-19 caused rise in TB deaths for first time in decade – WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday said deaths from Tuberculosis (TB), one of the top infectious killers in the…
Civil servants to show COVID-19 PCR test or vaccination proof from 1 Dec.
Mustapha, who is also the Secretary to Government of the Federation, said that the move was to improve vaccination rate…
Covid-19: 9 more deaths recorded as FCT, Kaduna lead new cases
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has registered 284 additional COVID-19 infections with nine related deaths across 19 states…
Cuba’s COVID-19 deaths, cases continue to drop
For the past two weeks, the number of active COVID-19 cases on the island has dropped from 34,172 to 16,975,…
COVID-19 breather for Nigeria: Zero death, 138 new cases
The NCDC said that the number of active cases in Nigeria now stands at 9,386, slightly lower than the 9,404…
COVID-19 kills 19 Nigerians on Independence Day eve
There were 281 additional COVID-19 cases in 12 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), NCDC said.
Covid-19: Nigeria logs 12 more deaths as Rivers leads new cases
No fewer than 296 new infections and 12 COVID-19 related deaths were recorded in the country in the past 24…
COVID-19 infections in Lagos surpass 76,000
Prof. Akin Abayomi, Lagos State Commissioner for Health, said the number of confirmed COVID-19 infections in the state stands at…
Bolsonaro’s son, 2 cabinet members contract COVID-19
Agriculture Minister Tereza Cristina, Solicitor General Bruno Bianco and Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro all confirmed their diagnoses via social media or…
2 dead, Abuja, Lagos, Anambra lead COVID-19 cases
ccording to NCDC data, 17 states accounted for the 433 cases logged for the day. Overall confirmed cases have now…
COVID: US approves BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine boosters for at-risk groups
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Coronavirus booster vaccinations with BioNTech/Pfizer’s drug for the elderly and at-risk groups.
FEC approves N836m for COVID-19 oxygen plants
This approval followed the Presidential Steering Committee’s (PSC) announcement to increase oxygen reserve capacity in the event of a third…
COVID-19 update: Nigeria logs 3 deaths, 513 new cases
Figures released by the NCDC showed that lagos state led the chart with 132 news cases. The state recorded 86…
COVID-19 cases explode in FCT Abuja
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said the FCT and 14 states reported a total of 393 cases and six…