The management of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, has revealed that out of the about 200 of its health workers that were infected with COVID-19, no less than four had died.
The tertiary hospital said among those killed by the global pandemic were two consultants and a senior matron....
At least 22 Covid patients have died after they lost oxygen supply for around 30 minutes due to a leak.
The incident occurred on Wednesday, April 21, while an oxygen tanker was refilling a storage tank at the Zakir Hussain hospital in Nashik city.
According to Nashik district collector Suraj Mandhare, the supply...
A Norwegian climber has confirmed that he tested positive for COVID-19 at the base camp on the south side of Mount Everest in Nepal, in a blow to the South Asia country ahead of the bumper mountaineering season on the world’s highest peak.
The pandemic crumbled last year’s season but...
The US today, April 13, stopped using the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine over blood clot concerns.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has called for use of the jab to be suspended after six young women developed blood clots after receiving it.
The six women who developed clots were aged between...
The University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan has taken delivery of its first set of triplets via an In Vitro Fertilization procedure in the hospital.
The delivery of the babies lasted 45-minutes. Hospital authorities say the mother and the babies, all females, are in good condition. The babies weighed 1.4kg, 2.5kg, and 2.4kg respectively.
The excited...
A woman has died in a nursing home just hours after she reportedly received her first coronavirus vaccine in Queensland, Australia.
Queensland Police confirmed the 82-year-old woman died on Wednesday, April 7, and that her death was not being treated as suspicious.
The woman was living at the Yurana aged care...
Japanese doctors have performed what doctors say is the world's first lung transplant from living donors to a recovered coronavirus patient after operating on a Japanese woman whose lungs were severely damaged by Covid-19.
According to Kyoto University Hospital in Japan, the woman underwent an 11-hour operation by a 30-strong medical...
The Federal government has received 100,000 doses of Covishield vaccines from India.
Chairman of the Presidential Taskforce on COVID19, Boss Mustapha, confirmed this on Tuesday April 6, at the national briefing by the PTF in Abuja, adding that more vaccines are coming from African Union’s Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (AVATT).
“As you are...
A novel vaccine approach for the prevention of HIV has shown promise in Phase I trials.
IAVI and Scripps Research reported that the vaccine which is being developed to act as an immune primer, to trigger the activation of naïve B cells via a process called germline-targeting, as the first stage in a multi-step...
A medical doctor has revealed that a number of women now inject seasoning cubes into their butt to make it bigger and he warned of the adverse effects of such practice.
He shared an old video of a documentary where women who are involved in the practice opened up about...
The Federal Government says it is proposing to spend the sum of N396 billion for the COVID19 vaccination exercise across the country between the years of 2021 and 2022.
The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed disclosed this after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting, which was presided over by...
The Federal Government has raised alarm over three thousand doses of fake COVID19 vaccines sent to Africa from China.
The Director of Hospital Services of the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH), Dr. Adebimpe Adebiyi, made this known in a letter dated March 26, 2021, to the Chief Medical Directors/Medical Directors...
The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has said that two vaccines developed in the country are awaiting clinical trials and certification.
Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha who disclosed this during the PTF national briefing in Abuja on Monday March 22, described it as a welcome development that will open a...
The National Rapid Response Team has been deployed by the federal government to Kano over a strange illness bedeviling the state.
Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Chikwe Ihekweazu made the disclosure at the joint national briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Monday March 22.
Daily Trust reported...
The United States has reported more than 30million cases of coronavirus since the pandemic began.
The nation surpassed the milestone on Wednesday, March 24, nearly 12 weeks after hitting 20m, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
No other country has recorded so many cases, and there is likely to be a...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has raised alarm over the circulation of fake COVID19 vaccines in the country.
Nigeria on March 2 received 3.92 million doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines and has since launched the vaccination programme in the country.
The Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof Mojisola...
Moderna has begun testing its COVID-19 vaccine in young children.
The biotech firm announced on Tuesday, March 16, the first participants in a study of children between 6 months and 12 years old received doses of its COVID-19 vaccine. Moderna collaborated with the National Institutes of Health and the Biomedical...
The federal government of Nigeria said 8,000 Nigerians have been given the Covid-19 vaccine so far, including President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, and none has reported any adverse effect since the vaccination began last week.
A number of countries have suspended the rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine...
Italian prosecutors have opened a manslaughter investigation after a music teacher died on Sunday, March 14, a day after receiving AstraZeneca's Covid vaccine.
The judiciary in Biella on Monday opened a preliminary probe into the death of 57-year-old Sandro Tognatti, whose cause of death is still unknown.
Authorities said there is...
A man who denied the severity of the coronavirus is now fighting for his life after he contracted the deadly virus.
Paul Russell was a conspiracy theorist who thought the virus was a ploy and would "disappear the day after the election".
The long-distance truck driver changed his opinion when he...
Austrian authorities have suspended inoculations with a batch of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine as a precaution while they investigate the death of one person after and the illness of another after the shots.
“The Federal Office for Safety in Health Care (BASG) has received two reports in a temporal connection with...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his wife, Asma al-Assad, have tested positive for COVID-19 and are suffering from mild symptoms, the government announced on Monday, March 8.
A brief statement from the Syrian presidency said Assad and his wife, Asma al-Assad, took PCR tests after developing mild symptoms consistent with...
Governors of the 36 states in the country are expected to publicly take the Coronavirus vaccine on March 10.
The agreement was reached at an emergency meeting which was attended by Boss Mustapha, secretary to the government of the federation (SGF); Osagie Ehanire, health minister; and Chikwe Ihekweazu, director-general of the...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has certified AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine safe for use in Nigeria.
Dr Osagie Ehanire, the Minister of Health, made this known on Friday at an event held at the National Hospital in Abuja.
Ehanire explained that the government agency cleared the...
Prince Philip underwent surgery for a pre-existing heart condition and will remain in hospital for "a number of days," Buckingham Palace said.
The Duke of Edinburgh underwent a "successful procedure" for a pre-existing heart condition after he was transferred from King Henry VII hospital to St Bartholomew’s on March 1.
In...
Brazilian football legend, Pele, 80, has received the COVID-19 vaccine, describing the moment “unforgettable” before warning that the pandemic is not over yet'
The 80-year-old was inoculated on Tuesday, March 2, around six weeks after Brazil began its coronavirus vaccine rollout.
"Today was an unforgettable day. I received the vaccine," Pele...
Nigerians have been directed to register for COVID-19 vaccination via the portal of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA).
The federal government gave the directive after it was announced that Nigeria is expecting 3.92m doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday March 2, from COVAX.
A tweet shared on the...
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has disclosed that 2.3m Nigerians registered for COVID-19 vaccination in less than 24 hours after it announced the launch of a portal for registration for the vaccination.
Executive Director of NPHCDA, Faisal Shuaib disclosed that there is enthusiasm in Nigeria over Monday’s arrival of...
A woman, Amy Mathews has revealed she has had too many orgasms and climaxes just by looking at someone she fancies.
According to Amy, 23, she has had orgasms on public transport, in college and even during lunch with her parents.
Now, she says, she is addicted to them as her...
Fulham midfielder, Kevin McDonald has revealed he is putting his career on hold to have a transplant amid a long battle with chronic kidney disease.
The Scotland international has been suffering from kidney disease for around 14 years now and has been under doctors' orders throughout a playing career which...
The Federal government has announced that Nigeria is scheduled to take delivery of 3.92 million doses of the COVID19 vaccine on Tuesday, March 2.
The delivery will mark the first arrival of COVID19 vaccine in the country and make Nigeria the next West African country to benefit from the COVAX Facility...
A woman had to undergo a liver transplant after a nose piercing infection led to a life-threatening condition.
Dana Smith, 37, got a nose piercing shortly after last Thanksgiving.
About a month later, Smith started to have stomach pains but was reluctant to go to the hospital because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speaking...
Golf legend, Tiger Woods reportedly has no memory of the car accident that left him with leg injures and unaware of how badly injured he was when the first deputy arrived at the scene.
The 45-year-old was involved in a single-car crash on Tuesday morning, February 23, in California, and...
Pope Francis has appointed a new personal doctor weeks after the previous one died from Covid-19.
The 84-year-old pontiff picked professor Roberto Bernabei, an expert in health care for the elderly, as his physician, the Vatican said in a statement on Wednesday, February 24.
Bernabei, 69, leads the geriatrics and rehabilitative medicine...
Ghana received its first batch of COVID19 vaccines on Wednesday February 24.
The Disease Surveillance Department of Ghana's Health Service shared photos of the consignment on its Twitter handle this afternoon.
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Argentina's public prosecutor's office will convene a medical board on March 8 to decide whether the late football legend Diego Maradona was given proper treatment before his death, legal sources said on Tuesday, February 23.
The Argetine football legend died of a heart attack on November 25, weeks after undergoing...
A Chinese lab in Wuhan, investigated by the World Health Organization over the origins of Covid-19 reportedly designed secret cages for breeding bats for virus experiments.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) was found to have filed patents for "bat rearing cages" and "artificial breeding" systems in the months before...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says Nigeria is at a "moderate risk" of fresh outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease,
In an update on its website, NCDC said a fresh outbreak of the disease is likely due to the proximity of Nigeria to Guinea, where there are currently Ebola...
Saudi Arabia on Thursday February 4, shut down entertainment centres including cinemas and suspended dine-in services at restaurants for 10 days amid a spike in COVID-19 infections.
The kingdom suspended "all events and parties" including weddings in banquet halls or hotels for 30 days, the interior ministry said in a...
A German veterinary clinic has reportedly trained sniffer dogs to detect coronavirus in human saliva samples with 94% accuracy.
The dogs are conditioned to pick up the "corona odour" that comes from cells in infected people, said Esther Schalke, a vet at Germany's armed forces school for service dogs.
Filou, a...
Scientists have asked the British government to ensure that social distancing is enforced until the end of the year.
Sunday Telegraph reported that restrictions can only be relaxed once the Coronavirus vaccines are at least 85% effective and a ‘high uptake’ of the jab is vital to avoid another deadly wave...
The Presidency has warned Nigerians to obey all the COVID19 protocols which include wearing a face mask so as to avoid the government from imposing another lockdown.
The warning came via a statement signed and released by Garba Shehu, senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity. The presidency...
The UK government will offer residents in parts of Surrey coronavirus tests, after two people tested positive for the South African variant despite having no travel links.
Health officials will carry out door-to-door testing in the Goldsworth Park and St Johns areas of Woking, regardless of whether people have...
An Ottawa nurse has tested positive for COVID-19 about two weeks after getting vaccinated.
The Nurse, Santosh Baral said he was "speechless" when his results came back positive for COVID-19 last week after a routine test.
He was among Ottawa’s front-line health-care workers to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the first week of...
The German Government has warned against giving AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine to people older than 65 years.
The warning from Germany comes amid a bitter dispute between the European Union and the drugmaker over delayed supplies of the vaccine to European countries.
The EU has ordered 300 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine...
The World Health Organization on Thursday January 28, announced that at least 30 percent of the African population will be vaccinated against Coronavirus before the end of the year.
AFP reported that WHO Africa’s immunisation coordinator Richard Mihigo said the WHO-backed Covax vaccine sharing facility and the AU’s African Vaccine Acquisition...
Authorities in China have introduced anal swabs as a new type of coronavirus test that could detect the virus more accurately as they struggle to contain rising infections ahead of the Lunar New Year celebrations.
This comes after local outbreaks in the country led to China shutting off many of its...
A California resident who tested positive for COVID-19 in late December died several hours after receiving a shot of the vaccine.
The individual, who has not been named, reportedly died in Placer County, in the greater Sacramento area, on Thursday.
The death was announced by the Placer County Sheriff’s Office in...
Mexico's President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has tested positive for Coronavirus.
The South American country's President who has been criticized for his handling of his country’s pandemic and for not setting an example of prevention in public, said his symptoms are mild and he his currently undergoing treatment.
Obrador tweeted;
“I regret to inform...
33 elderly people died in Norway within days of receiving their first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine with the country's health officials saying there is no evidence of a 'direct link' between the jab and their deaths.
"All of these patients have had serious underlying illnesses. We can’t say...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control NCDC says 1617 fresh cases of COVID19 was recorded in Nigeria on Monday, January 18.
According to the health agency, Lagos recorded 776 fresh cases, the highest for the day.
Other places with fresh cases include Kaduna-147, Kwara-131, FCT-102, Plateau-78, Edo-59, Ogun-53, Osun-45, Rivers-37, Taraba-36, Nasarawa-34, Adamawa-33, Kano-26, Delta-20, Ebonyi-16,...
As Nigeria expects to receive 100, 000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine by the end of January, the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) says there are not enough freezers to store the doses of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine when they are delivered.
The vaccine is required to be stored at minus 70 degrees Celsius.
In...
Saved by the Bell star Dustin Diamond, who played Screech in the popular teen series, has been hospitalized with stage 4 cancer.
A rep for the actor said that Diamond checked himself into a hospital this week after feeling unwell.
The type of cancer the actor is battling has not been disclosed.
According...
Italian media tycoon and former Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi has been hospitalized in Monaco after suffering heart problems.
Berlusconi's personal doctor, Alberto Zangrillo said he was hospitalised on Thursday January 14, 'at the Cardiothoracic Hospital in Monaco for tests.'
'He will return home within a few days', he told AFP news agency.
Alberto...
20 doctors have contracted COVID-19 within the past three weeks in Kwara State.
President of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Dr Badmus Habeeb, disclosed this to Channels Television during a phone interview on Wednesday January 13.
Habeeb who said the association are battling with the pandemic...
The Director-General of the NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu has stated that hospitals across the country will soon not be able to handle serious cases of Coronavirus as Nigeria is reaching a critical level.
In a series of tweets he shared on Monday January 11, Ihekweazu stated there is need to protect vulnerable...
