***non-compliance airline to pay $3,500 fine for each passenger ***PCR test results older than 72hours before departure shall not be accepted By Gabriel Olawale The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced that has from Tuesday, there will be a temporary ban on non-Nigerian passengers who have been to Brazil, India, or Turkey within 14 days […]

India registered 386,452 new coronavirus cases on Friday, yet another global record for infections in a single day, even as the country’s new round of vaccinations appeared uncertain, with many states citing lack of doses. Covid-19 claimed 3,498 lives in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 208,330, data from the federal Health […]

By Chioma Obinna The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Friday approved the use of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in Nigeria. This is coming a few months after it gave authorisation for the use of the Oxford-Astrazeneca jabs in the country. ALSO READ: PCN seals 536 pharmacies, patent shops in Sokoto Announcing […]

Malaysia says it will vaccinate teachers as part of its second phase of COVID jabs, which started earlier for the elderly and those deemed high risk due to other medical conditions. Announcing the revised plan, the Deputy Education Minister, Mah Hang Soon said the safety of teachers and students remains the ministry’s top priority, according […]

A man on Friday was recovering in a German hospital after accidentally receiving five times the standard dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Health authorities in the eastern German city of Schwerin told the local daily Schweriner Volkszeitung that it had been a regrettable incident, which occurred after the containers with diluted and undiluted versions of […]

India hit record numbers of Covid-19 infections worldwide for the sixth day running on Tuesday as the country and its overstretched health systems started receiving vital medical supplies to deal with the pandemic. A total of 323,144 new cases and 2,771 deaths were registered, Health Ministry data showed, taking the national caseload to 17.6 million […]

Brazil’s National Health Regulation Agency (Anvisa) on Tuesday declared itself against the import of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V. The agency lacks “consistent and reliable data,” it said in a statement. The decision was unanimous after about five hours of deliberations. However, Anvisa director, Alex Machado Campos, stressed that the decision was only a […]

British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca denies having breached its contract to supply the European Union with 300 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine. “AstraZeneca has fully complied with the Advance Purchase Agreement with the European Commission and will strongly defend itself in court,” the company said in a written statement published shortly after the EU executive […]

The World Health Organization has warned against jumping to conclusions about a new coronavirus variant discovered in India, saying it had not yet classified it as worrying. A WHO spokeswoman said that it was not clear at this point to what extent the variant was responsible for the rapid increase in cases in India in […]

The European Commission has started legal action against British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca due to breaches of its COVID-19 vaccine supply contract. The EU executive branch began the process on Friday because some terms of the contract have not been respected, commission spokesperson Stefan De Keersmaecker said on Monday. Furthermore, “the company has not been in a […]

***begs for financial assistance By David Odama – Lafia A 31-year-old woman, Goselle Manya, is now lying critically ill in a hospital after receiving the Astrazeneca vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19 in Nasarawa state. Goselle Manya, a volunteer staff with a Primary health care centre, located in Azuba Bashiyi, Shabu development Area of Lafia […]

India has recorded 2,020 COVID-19-related deaths in a single day, as the country continued its attempts to control the latest wave of the pandemic sweeping the globe. Authorities registered approximately 295,000 fresh infections and some 2,020 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to Health Ministry data. Both were highest-ever single-day tallies. The cases came […]

The Nigerian Center for Disease Control (NCDC) reported zero COVID-19-related death for the ninth consecutive days as the nation’s fatality toll remains 2,061. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Tuesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the country last registered a COVID-19-related death on April 11. It reports that […]

The Director-General, Cross River Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr Janet Ekpenyong, says no fewer than 27,000 residents have taken a jab the AstraZeneca vaccine in the state. Ekpenyong told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview on Monday in Calabar that eligible adults who took the vaccine provided themselves voluntarily for the vaccination. […]

The global death toll from the coronavirus topped a staggering 3 million people Saturday amid repeated setbacks in the worldwide vaccination campaign and a deepening crisis in places such as Brazil, India and France. The number of lives lost, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the population of Kyiv, Ukraine; Caracas, […]