The President, Nigerian Medical Association, Prof. Innocent Ujah, has warned the public to be cautious, saying being vaccinated doesn’t mean they should be careless to risk COVID-19 infection. Ujah gave the advice during the 11th Annual Symposium of the Health Writers Association Of Nigeria (HEWAN) on Wednesday in Lagos. The symposium was themed; “Building Confidence […]

Not less than 1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines are estimated to have expired in the last one month in Nigeria without being used even as the Federal Government said that some of the donated vaccine doses had short residual shelf lives.

By Chioma Obinna The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Tuesday confirmed additional three more cases of COVID-19 with the B.1.1.529 SARS-CoV-2 lineage, the Omicron variant, in Nigeria. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of the Omicron variant detected in Nigeria to six . All the Omicron cases so far were detected […]

Chairperson of the South African Medical Association (SAMA) said most patients infected with Omicron COVID-19 variant got mild symptoms, while the unvaccinated patients showed relatively severe symptoms. Angelique Cootze, who has treated 70 patients diagnosed with the new variant, said she had seen most patients with mild symptoms such as headaches, body aches and sore […]

By Henry Umoru The President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan has assured that the National Assembly will provide resources in 2022 budget for the battle against COVID-19 pandemic but will insist on prudence in the use of the funds. Speaking Monday in Abuja while declaring open a National Summit on COVID-19 with the theme: […]

By Omeiza Ajayi The Federal Government has boasted of enough COVID-19 vaccines to cover over 70 percent of its population by December 2022. Chairman, Presidential Steering Committee PSC on COVID-19 and Secretary to the Government of the Federation SGF, Mr Boss Mustapha disclosed this Monday in Abuja at the opening of a two-day national summit […]

The Federal Government says only about three per cent of Nigeria’s population has been vaccinated against COVID-19 largely due to poor access to the vaccine by developing countries. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said this in Madrid, Spain at the 24th General Assembly of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO). […]

The South-West Caucus of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has expressed support for the Federal Government’s  COVID-19 vaccine mandate, which required all workers in the Federal Civil Service to be inoculated. Its Secretary, Dr Bolaji Salako, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that currently available COVID-19 vaccines were safe, effective and would ensure the […]

Dr Dominic Ukpong, the Special Adviser on Heath Matters to Gov. Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom, said 44 people had so far died of COVID-19 in the state. Ukpong made the disclosure at the maiden Eket Christmas Festival on Friday. “It is official that 44 people died in Akwa Ibom since COVID-19 started on April […]

African countries are stepping up measures to detect and control the spread of the Omicron variant. This became necessary as weekly new COVID-19 cases in the continent rose by 54 per cent due to an upsurge in southern Africa, said the World Health Organisation in a statement released on Thursday. According to  WHO, the Omicron […]

The number of Coronavirus (COVID-19) infections in Africa is increasing rapidly against the backdrop of the discovery of the new Omicron variant, according to the Africa Centre for Infectious Diseases (Africa CDC). Earlier, 52,300 new cases were registered in the whole African continent, an increase of 105 per cent, compared to the previous week when […]

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says cases of the new Omicron variant have been reported in at least 23 countries in five of the six WHO regions. WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, disclosed on Wednesday in Geneva and said that the number of cases was expected to grow. “WHO takes this development extremely seriously, and […]

By Chioma Obinna The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Wednesday confirmed the first case of Omicron variant in Nigeria. The Centre said in line with the routine travel test required of all international travellers and Genomic sequencing at the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) through Its National Reference Laboratory (NRL), Abuja–confirmed Nigeria’s […]

By Chioma Obinna *… urges states to curb community transmission The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Wednesday confirmed the first 3 cases of Omicron variant in Nigeria.  The Omicron variant, also known as the B.1.1.529 lineage, was confirmed in travellers from South Africa who arrived in Nigeria. In a press statement by the […]

Air travellers to the United States (U.S.) will face tougher Coronavirus (COVID-19) testing rules as several countries moved to seal off their borders amid growing uncertainty around the virulence of the Omicron variant. The Omicron variant has the ability to dodge existing vaccines. In Asia-Pacific, Hong Kong and Japan said they would expand travel curbs, […]