The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says Nigeria has entered the fourth wave of coronavirus disease following a 500 percent increase in the number of cases in the past two weeks.
The agency announced this in a statement signed by the Director-General, Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa on Monday evening, December 20.
The...
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director, Dr. Anthony Fauci has warned that Christmas travel will increase the spread of the Omicron Covid-19 variant, even among the fully vaccinated.
Dr Fauci, who advises the US government on the pandemic, said the variant was now "raging through the world" even...
The Federal Government has appealed to Nigerians to take their health seriously as the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has risen astronomically by 630%.
The Minister of State for Health, Dr Olorunmimbe Mamora, made the appeal in an interview with Punch. He said there is need for Nigerians to take responsibility...
The Omicron variant multiplies 70 times faster than Delta in human airways, according to researchers.
A new study in Hong Kong provides the first information on how Omicron infects people, and it also suggests it replicates less well in human lung tissue compared with the original strain of the virus.
This...
The UK government has announced that all 11 countries will be removed from the UK's travel red list from 4am on Wednesday, Dec. 15.
Nigeria, South Africa, Botswana, Angola, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe are countries placed on the list in late November after the emergence of the Omicron...
Pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, has announced that it has produced 180,000 treatment pills ready for use this year and plans to produce at least 80 million in 2022.
According to Pfizer, the final analysis of its antiviral COVID-19 pill showed close to 90 percent efficacy in preventing hospitalisations and deaths in...
Yearly vaccine booster shots are a possibility in the US' battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, the country’s top infectious disease expert, Dr Anthony Fauci has warned.
Fauci, the chief White House medical adviser, said on ABC’s “This Week.” that boosters provide the “optimal” level of protection.
Asked about the possible necessity...
International news agency, Reuters has reported that up to one million COVID-19 vaccines are estimated to have expired in Nigeria in November.
Two sources with direct knowledge of vaccine delivery and use, told Reuters that the expired doses were made by AstraZeneca and supplied via COVAX from Europe.
A third source with knowledge...
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has said that Omicron is driving the fourth wave of Covid-19 infections in the country following a five-fold increase in daily infection rates over the last week.
Speaking on the situation, which he says is “concerning,” he explained omicron is dominating new infections in most provinces and nearly a quarter of all...
Two hippopotamuses have tested positive for Covid-19 at Antwerp zoo in Belgium.
Imani, aged 14, and Hermien, 41, have no symptoms apart from runny noses, but the zoo said they had been put in quarantine as a precaution.
"To my knowledge, this is the first time in this species. Worldwide, this virus has...
A 50-year-old man in Italy tried to pass off a silicone arm as his own at a Covid-19 vaccination clinic in an attempt to get a vaccine certificate without actually getting vaccinated.
The cunning act was spotted by a nurse, Filippa Bua, as she was about to administer the vaccine...
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said barely three per cent of Nigeria’s population has been vaccinated against COVID-19 largely due to poor access to the vaccine by developing countries.
Speaking on Sunday, December 5, in Madrid, Spain at the 24th General Assembly of the United Nations World...
Germany has announced new restrictions for people who have not received the Covid-19 vaccine.
Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday, Dec. 2, that unvaccinated people will be barred from many public places, including non-essential shops and events, unless they have recently recovered from Covid-19
Merkel said: "Culture and leisure nationwide will...
More than 50 people in Norway have been infected with Covid after a Christmas party that is likely to prove the world’s biggest outbreak of the new Omicron variant.
One of the party-goers has tested positive for the omicron variant, and more cases are expected to follow, Oslo’s authorities said on Thursday.
"We are working actively with contact...
Canada has confirmed the detection of two cases of Omicron, a highly transmissible variant of the coronavirus, health officials said in a statement.
The two cases have been traced to two people who travelled to Nigeria.
"Today, the province of Ontario has confirmed two cases of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 in Ottawa, both...
A new coronavirus variant that has been branded the "worst ever" mutation of the disease has already reached Europe, a virologist said today.
A patient in Belgium fell ill with the B.1.1.529 variant of the virus, which was first detected in South Africa.
Belgian Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke said: "We have one case of...
The Austrian government has ordered a nationwide lockdown for unvaccinated people in an effort to slow the spread of Covid-19 in the country.
Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg on Monday confirmed that millions of citizens would be placed into lockdown from tomorrow amid a worrying trend in infections.
The move, which...
An unvaccinated mum said she does not regret rejecting Covid vaccines in the wake of the death of her newborn third child.
22-year-old Katie Leeming had baby Ivy-Rose Court delivered by caesarean 14 weeks prematurely after she fell ill with coronavirus. A week after the emergency birth on October 13, doctors...
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If you still have a chance and choice to stay safe, please do because it...
An experimental pill to treat Covid developed by pharmaceutical giants, Pfizer cuts the risk of hospitalisation or death by 89% in vulnerable adults, the company has announced.
The drug - Paxlovid - is intended for use soon after symptoms develop in people at high risk of severe disease.
Pfizer says it...
A feeling of succour, relief and hope returned yesterday for ailing veteran Nollywood actor Ani Chukwuemeka after receiving N6 million from the founder and senior prophet of Christ Mercyland Deliverance Ministry, Warri, billionaire Prophet Jeremiah Fufeyin.
While two other actors, who were with Chukwuemeka received additional N1 million, bringing the...
Young men who receive the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine are at higher risk of developing a rare case of heart inflammation than those who received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, according to researchers
Researchers on Thursday October 21, revealed the data at a meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) advisory committee to...
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The federal government has mandated civil servants to get vaccinated against COVID19.
The secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha who disclosed this to newsmen on Wednesday, October 13, said beginning from December 1, civil servants will be required to show their COVID19 vaccination before they can gain...
Nigeria's COVID-19 vaccine certificate will reportedly be accorded recognition by UK authorities from October 11.
The UK government which added Nigeria to the list of countries with approved vaccines on Thursday October 7, said fully vaccinated travellers from Nigeria will be able to enter England from Monday, October 11, 2021, without providing pre-departure test...
California has become the first state in the U.S. to outlaw 'stealthing,' a slang term for the nonconsensual removal of a condom during sex.
The law, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday, makes it a civil sexual battery offense under state law for someone to remove a condom without...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has advised Nigerians against consuming frozen poultry products and other food items preserved with formalin.
Formalin is a poisonous chemical popularly used to preserve the human body in mortuaries.
NAFDAC’s spokesman, Dr. Abubakar Jimoh, who gave the word of advice...
The World Health Organization has recommended the widespread rollout of the first-ever malaria vaccine, in a move experts hope could save tens of thousands of children’s lives each year across Africa.
Tedros Ghebreyesus, director-general of the WHO, announced the development at a media briefing on Wednesday, October 6.
The recommendation followed...
Health experts have cautioned Nigerians against the practice of tying the legs of victims of snakebite with a cloth to stop the movement of the snake venom.
According to the experts, the practice and other crude management of snakebite are fuelling avoidable mortality and morbidity.
The call by the medical experts...
Russians have reported its highest one-day Covid death toll amid a spike in cases of the virus in their country.
The country saw 852 Covid deaths on Tuesday, the government said, which comes after more than two months of reporting around 770 deaths per day.
Russia's Covid cases, which had been in...
World Health Organisation is set to carry out a new investigation into the origins of the Covid outbreak and probe whether the virus came from a Wuhan lab.
A new team of experts will be appointed, including experts on biosecurity, laboratory safety, genetics, and how viruses spread to humans, The...
US President Joe Biden has pledged to donate 500 million more doses of the Pfizer vaccine to developing nations from next year.
He made the pledge at a virtual Covid-19 summit on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, promising an "arsenal of vaccines".
“To beat the pandemic here, we need to...
The United Kingdom has said people who received their Covid-19 vaccine in Africa, India, and certain other places will be considered as "unvaccinated" when they travel and will be treated as such.
The UK listed certain countries whose vaccination exercise is recognized and stated that those who didn't get their vaccines from the...
Governors from the Southern region of the country who met today September 16 in Enugu, have expressed support for the collection of value-added tax (VAT) by state governments.
This was conveyed in a communique read out by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo state at the end of the meeting.
The Governors who reaffirmed...
A mother and daughter who refused to take the COVID-19 vaccine, have died weeks apart in same hospital ward after contracting the virus.
32-year-old mother of four, Sammie-Jo Forde died in Ulster Hospital, on the outskirts of east Belfast, Ireland on Saturday September 11, after her 55-year-old mother Heather Maddern died on August...
Thirteen western lowland gorillas at Zoo Atlanta have tested positive for Coronavirus.
Staff were alerted when several of the zoo’s troop of 20 western lowland gorillas began exhibiting symptoms, including runny noses, mild coughing and loss of appetite.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that fecal samples and swabs sent to the University of...
Nigeria has surpassed 200,000 covid-19 cases 18 months after the first positive case was identified in an Italian traveller on Feb. 27, 2020, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease (NCDC).
The NCDC, on Wednesday morning, September 15, via its official website said that Nigeria’s COVID-19 cases had jumped to...
The federal government has revealed that over a million Nigerians have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Executive-Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib made the announcement during the national briefing of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC), on Monday September 13.
Shuaib said that while 1,692,315 persons have received...
About 640 people who were fully vaccinated died with Covid-19 in England in six months (January to July) accounting for just 1% of deaths, new figures have revealed
According to a Monday morning, September 13 publication by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), of the 51,281 people who died with...
Health organizations are trying to contain an outbreak of the Nipah virus that has a much higher death rate than Covid and causes vomiting, seizures and brain swelling.
A young Indian boy was killed by the illness and there are fears it could cause the next worldwide pandemic, heightened by the...
Although the infection rates amongst women increased between 2016-2019, the use of antiretroviral treatment by them declined.
A new report has indicated that the percentage of women living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria increased between 2016 and 2019 while that of men decreased within the same period.
The result from the Nigeria...
A coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa 'could be more infectious' than other mutations and has the potential to 'evade vaccines', scientists have said.
The C.1.2 strain, which is linked to 'increased transmissibility', is more mutations away from the original virus seen in Wuhan, experts at South Africa's National Institute for Communicable...
An NHS doctor has warned that pulling out your nose hairs can cause a life-threatening medical condition.
In a video he uploaded on his Instagram account, Dr Karan Rajan warned you should "never pull out your nose hairs".
Explaining the hidden danger of pulling out nose hairs, he said: "You have two types of nose...
Japan will halt the use of 1.63 million doses of Moderna's Covid vaccine after reports of contamination in several lots, drugmaker Takeda and the health ministry said Thursday.
Takeda, which is in charge of sales and distribution of the Moderna shot in Japan, said it had "received reports from several...
Executive Director of National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Faisal Shuaib has said that the Sinopharm BBIBP-CorV COVID-19 vaccine has been approved for use in Nigeria.
Shuaib who made the announcement during a press briefing on Tuesday August 24, said the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) approved...
American Civil rights leader, Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. along with his wife, Jacqueline, have been hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19.
In a statement released by the prominent political activist's organization, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. it said the reverend, who is 79 years old, and Jacqueline Jackson, 77, were admitted...
Studies have shown that the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases is projected to conservatively account for 30% of all deaths in Nigeria. In the last decade, we have seen a rise of fried and fast food consumption especially in urban areas, proportionately contributing to increase in cholesterol levels. While many...
Veteran musician, Mike Okri, has contracted COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated.
Okri disclosed this in facebook live he had on Saturday, AUgust 21. Okri who recently returned home after decades abroad said he caught the virus on Friday, August 20, a day before he was due to travel. He said he felt “devastated” and...
A Las Vegas flight attendant has died following a month-long battle with COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated.
Maurice Reginald “Reggie” Shepperson, 36, a Southwest Airlines flight attendant died last week after having tested positive for the virus in early July, KDFW reported.
“It shows how quick life can change,” Dawn Shepperson-Bernard,...
A first case of Marburg virus disease have been confirmed by Health authorities in Guinea, in the southern Gueckedou prefecture.
This is the first time Marburg, a highly infectious disease that causes haemorrhagic fever and in the same family as the virus that causes Ebola has been identified in the country and in...
A heartbroken son has revealed how his mother, father, and brother all died of Covid within the space of a week, after refusing to get the coronavirus vaccine.
Francis Goncalves’ brother Shaul, 40, father, Basil, 73, and mother, Charmagne, 65, all died in hospital within two weeks of contracting coronavirus.
The 43-year-old,...
Rollout of the second batch of vaccines has been postponed by the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19.
PSC's spokesperson, Willie Bassey said the vaccination exercise which was scheduled for Tuesday August 10, was postponed due to unforeseen circumstances.
Bassey also failed to give a new date for the rollout of the vaccines. The...
A top scientist has warned that cloth sheet masks are not going to protect people from the fast spreading covid-19 Delta variant.
The warning comes as some US states and cities face the potential of a mask mandate in response to the Delta variant.
Michael Osterholm, an epidemiologist and director of...
A Chinese scientist, popularly called batwoman, has issued a stark warning that more deadly Covid variants are coming.
Wuhan-based virologist Shi Zhengli is one of the world's top researchers on coronaviruses and has discovered dozens of deadly SARS-like viruses in bat caves.
She studied samples taken from some of the first people...
Minister of Health, Ehanire Osagie has said that Nigeria is currently experiencing a third wave of COVID-19 pandemic.
Osagie who disclosed this at the press briefing of the presidential steering committee on COVID-19 on Monday August 1, called for state participation in sample collection, reporting, and treatment of cases. According to him, only 17...
A Las Vegas dad who had been battling COVID-19 reportedly sent his fiancée a heartbreaking text, which read: "I should have gotten the damn vaccine" just before he died.
Michael Freedy, 39, had gone on vacation with fiancée Jessica du Preez and their children, ages 17, 10, 7, 6, and...
