THE Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa reached 7,721,121 as of Sunday afternoon. The...
JAPAN has suspended the use of another million doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine as contamination woes widen, after foreign substances were found in more batches and...
IT’S hard to explain what it feels like when someone you thought you knew intimately starts to repeat conspiracy theories about the pandemic and vaccines. You...
ANEW Zealand health ministry has reported the country’s first death linked to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine as New Zealand’s largest city Auckland extends lockdown for two more...
SOUTH African scientists said the new coronavirus variant dis covered in the country has a concerning number of mutations. The so-called C.1.2. variant was first...
YEMEN has received its first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines made by Johnson & Johnson, roughly 151,000 doses, the health ministry said. The desperately poor country,...
A COVID-19 hospital has been raided by police amid allegations of patients holding drug-fuelled orgies. Shocked nurses called officers after claiming to have seen male...
A STUDY published by Indian Health Ministry said 85 per cent of 6,985 COVID-19 deaths that have been reported up to August 13 in the country...
THE world has passed the grim threshold of 4.5 million COVID-19 deaths. According to a tally released today by US health authorities, more casualties were...
…Says booster jabs not luxury STAGNATING vaccination rates and accelerated transmission of the virus could contribute to over a quarter of a million Europeans dying from...
TEACHERS and school staff should be among the groups prioritised for COVID-19 vaccinations so that schools in Europe and Central Asia can stay open, said the...
FEDERAL government said it has spent over $3.6 billion in managing the effects of COVID-19 in the country. Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning,...
DISEASE expert Eric Ding says a new variant of the coronavirus believed to be nearly twice as infectious as other strains has been detected. The...
ALL is set for a day with education builders in Anambra State scheduled to hold on Thursday, August 2. The event scheduled to be held...
SPECIAL Adviser to Governor Willie Obiano on Disability Matters, Chuks Ezewuzie has urged persons living with disabilities in Anambra state to fully participate in the second...
ANAMBRA State will today flag off second phase of COVID-19 vaccination campaign. The ceremony will be performed by GOV. Willie Obiano at Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu...
LAGOS, FCT, 13 others report 93 deaths, 362 new infections yesterday in new national COVID-19 surge. Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) disclosed thus on...
FOLLOWING recent attacks and killings in Jos and in line with his administration’s commitment to safety and security of Lagosians, Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has...
AN ILE-IFE Magistrates’ Court in Osun State, on Monday, ordered that a woman, Nifemi Ajayi, be remanded for allegedly biting her neighbour on the scrotum. ...
FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Monday, urged Nigerians to always look inwards and develop local content to move the country forward in spite of its current...