COVID-19

The federal government has urged Nigerians to get themselves fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and maintain all non-pharmaceutical preventive measures to prevent a fourth wave of the pandemic in the country as cases are surging in other…

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) recorded 35 new cases of COVID-19 in the last week of December 2022. On its website on Wednesday, it stated that 22 cases were recorded in the FCT; 10 in Lagos State; two in Delta, and one in…

The Epidemiological Division of the Public Health Department, under the FCT Health and Human Services Secretariat (HHSS) has placed its medical personnel on red alert and tightened its disease surveillance system to minimize its impact…

The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, has warned that Nigeria will likely witness an increase in COVID-19 cases and a decrease in hospitalisation over the holiday season this year. Adetifa…

Nigeria was not caught unaware when the country recorded the first index case of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on February 27, 2020. Though world leaders were apprehensive, the pandemic would wipe out Africa. With Nigeria at…

The European Medicines Agency (EMA), on Wednesday, confirmed that part of the side effects of AstraZeneca Covid-19 Vaccine are “very rare cases of unusual blood clots with low blood platelets.” In a press release published on its…

The Federal Government has said that Nigerians will not be mandated to take the COVID-19 vaccine. Minister of State for Health, Dr Olorunnimbe Mamora disclosed while speaking on Arise Tv, that although the government is capable of…