Over 80 drone applications under review, training centre in pipeline — NCAA
Stories by Dickson Omobola Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, has said it is in the process of approving a new aviation training facility for drone operators. NCAA’s Director of Aerodrome and Airspace Standards, Engineer Godwin Balang, said the agency has chosen to be methodical to ensure the facility met all operational benchmarks. Balang, who spoke at the […]
EU looks to secure vaccine materials from US
The EU will open talks with Washington Monday to ensure its supply of US-made materials for coronavirus vaccines, a European source said Saturday, items currently under tough export restrictions. Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton — Brussels’ pointman on vaccine production — will confer with White House Covid-19 coordinator Jeffrey Zients, the source familiar with the […]
Photos of President Buhari, Vice President Osinbajo taking COVID-19 vaccine
Earlier in the day, President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo received the COVID-19 vaccine at the Presidential Villa
Breaking: Buhari, Osinbajo take COVID-19 vaccine
President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Saturday received the COVID-19 vaccine publicly at the Presidential Villa.
Cameroon to receive more than 1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses — PM
Cameroon is set to receive “very shortly” more than one million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute said on Friday. Pointing to “a deterioration in the epidemiological situation” in the country, Dion Ngute told state radio that “more than one million vaccine doses will be available very shortly”. He did not specify […]
S/Africa marks a year since first case of COVID-19, with death exceeding 50,000
Friday marks exactly a year since the first case of the novel coronavirus was first detected in South Africa on March 5, 2020. The Health Minister, Zweli Mkhize, said this on Friday when sending his condolences to those who died from the virus. “Exactly a year ago, I had the unenvious position of briefing the […]
21 African countries report COVID-19 fatality rates higher than global average
Twenty-one African countries are reporting COVID-19 case fatality rates higher than the global average, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said on Friday. The number of COVID-19-related deaths in Africa now stood at 105,001, the specialised healthcare agency of the 55-member AU said. According to the centre, the number of African […]
FCT Minister says storage, security of COVID-19 vaccines in place
Mr Muhammad Bello, Minister, Federal Capital Territory, on Friday affirmed that an all-inclusive preparation had been concluded ahead of the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccines into the country. Bello, while speaking at the National Launch of COVID-19, in Abuja said that FCT had the capacity to store and distribute the vaccines, while all hands were […]
Covid-19: Nigeria’s developed vaccine at clinic trial ― VC, Adeleke University
By Shina Abubakar – Osogbo The Vice Chancellor of Adeleke University, Professor Solomon Adebiola, has disclosed that a covid-19 vaccine developed by Nigerian scientists is currently at the clinical trial stage. He added that the vaccine, which was recognised by the World Health Organisation and supported by the Federal Ministry of Health was developed by […]
UPDATED: National Hospital doctor receives first COVID-19 vaccine jab
History has been as Dr. Cyprian Nyong, of the National Hospital, Abuja, receives the first COVID-19 vaccine today (Friday) in Nigeria, when he took the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine.
South Sudan faces acute food shortages as harvest falls by 50%
An international charity warned on Thursday that South Sudanese are facing life-threatening food shortages following last year’s drop in harvests. Robert Mardini, the Director-General, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), said this in a statement issued in Juba. The ICRC said in its latest assessment that communities in nine out of 10 states harvested […]
WHO scraps plan for interim report on Wuhan virus mission
The World Health Organization (WHO) has scrapped plans for a team that visited Wuhan, China to probe the origins of the coronavirus pandemic to issue an interim report, The Wall Street Journal reported late Thursday. Wuhan is the city where the pandemic is believed to have originated in late 2019. The WHO team returned recently […]
Rwanda earmarks $51m to buy COVID-19 vaccines
Rwanda has budgeted 50 billion Rwandan francs (about $51.2 million) to buy COVID-19 vaccines for over 7.8 million people by 2022, Health Minister, Daniel Ngamije, said. The government will spend at least two-thirds of the total budget, as some vaccines are expected to come in as donations or via COVAX. COVAX is a mechanism led […]
Study suggests South Africa Covid variant could offer better immunity
A new preliminary study — based on a small sample — has suggested that people previously infected by the Covid-19 variant identified in South Africa may have better immunity against other coronavirus mutations, experts said Wednesday. The findings, from a yet to be peer-reviewed research by the team of South African scientists who discovered the […]
Sudan receives first batch of coronavirus vaccines
Sudan received its first coronavirus vaccines Wednesday and will begin inoculation of frontline medical staff next week, health officials said. The first consignments which arrived at Khartoum airport comprise 828,000 doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine. Sudan has secured a total of 3.4 million doses, which are expected to arrive in the coming months through COVAX, a […]
South Africa medics celebrate after sharp drop in Covid cases
After a year battling coronavirus, exhausted health workers in South Africa are celebrating a drop in cases but dread another wave of infections — a scenario that could strike just months from now. “We are relieved now because the numbers are down and patients are no longer that sick,” nurse Constance Mathibela told AFP at […]
