By Sola Ogundipe As COVID-19 cases rose for the seventh consecutive week since the onset of the third wave on 3rd of May 2021, Africa faced its worst pandemic week ever during the week ending 4th of July, 2021 with more than 251,000 new COVID-19 cases amounting to a 20 per cent increase over the […]

Call for constructive engagement By Chioma Obinna As new COVID-19 variants continue to emerge, Nigerian medical experts have urged the Federal Government to be open about the delta variant and ensure constructive engagement with the populace to secure their trust as well as get them to be on their guards against the pandemic. The experts […]

Meanwhile, the COVAX vaccine-sharing facility says it expects to have 1.9 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines available by the end of 2021, including 1.5 billion earmarked for the poorest countries.

By Omeiza Ajayi, Abuja Disturbed by the high cost of COVID-19 tests for people seeking to travel out of the country, an indigenous company, Bundi International Diagnostics Ltd said it would soon unveil a new technology that will crash the cost of such tests in-country. The average cost of the COVID-19 test for people travelling […]

The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) says COVID-19 vaccines do not contain electromagnetic ingredients that can cause side effects. The Executive Director, NPHCDA, Dr Faisal Shuaib, said this at a press briefing on Tuesday in Abuja. The briefing was in reaction to reports on social media that electronic devices recognised people that had […]

No fewer than 136 students in a high school have been infected with the COVID-19 Delta variant, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed. During the latest national COVID-19 update, 136 out of 550 samples taken among students in Achimota School came out positive, said Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, Director-General of the GHS. Aboagye said that three […]

Ghana confirmed a community infection of the Delta variant of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) on Friday, the Ministry of Information said. “The Ghana Health Service informed the COVID-19 Task Force on Friday that the Delta Variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus had been recorded within a community in the latest round of genomic sequencing,” said the ministry […]

By Sola Ogundipe The World Bank has announced a provision of $4.4 billion for the purchase and deployment of COVID-19 vaccines for 51 developing countries, but Nigeria is not listed among the benefiting countries half of which are in Africa. The financing is part of the Bank’s commitment to help low- and middle-income countries acquire […]

The World Health Organisation’s regional director for Europe has warned the continent could see a fresh wave of Coronavirus cases by autumn. Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, Hans Kluge said that loosening restrictions in many countries and increased travel activity were increasing the risk of infection. After 10 weeks of decline, the number […]

Emma Ujah, Abuja The World Bank has announced the provision of over $4 billion for the purchase and deployment of COVID-19 vaccines for 51 developing countries, half of which are in Africa.  More than half of the financing comes from the International Development Association (IDA), the bank’s fund for the world’s poorest countries, and is […]