558 new Coronavirus cases were confirmed in Nigeria on Thursday July 29, as confirmed by theNigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
The federal agency said the figure reported on July 29 was the highest in almost five months. The last time Nigeria reported a daily figure higher than 558 was on March 4,...
The U.S. has reported the highest number of new COVID-19 cases in the world over the last seven days, according to the World Health Organization.The U.S. saw 500,332 new cases (a 131% increase) the week ending July 25 compared to the previous week, the WHO said.
The world meanwhile has...
A Maryland man has been arrested on suspicion of sending repeated threats to harm Anthony Fauci, the United States' top infectious disease expert.According to a newly unsealed criminal complaint, Thomas Patrick Connally, Jr., 56 sent a series of profanity-laden emails to Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration has announced plans to increase community sensitization as the death toll from cholera outbreak in Abuja is now 60.
According to the FCT Minister of State, Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, suspected cases of Cholera in Abuja have risen from 604 to 698 within the last 72 hours.The...
The Chinese government has announced it will not participate in a second phase of the World Health Organization's investigation into the origins of Covid-19, after the possibility of the virus leaking from a Wuhan lab was included on the proposal.The WHO released an initial report from its investigation into...
Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu has announced that there are 59 suspected cases of Monkeypox with 15 confirmed in the country.
Ihekweazu who disclosed this while reacting to report of a United States resident testing positive for the disease after arriving the North-American country from Nigeria, said...
Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro has been released from hospital four days after being admitted with serious intestine problems.
Bolsonaro, 66, had been suffering persistent hiccups for 10 days and there have been concerns about the leader's health since he was stabbed in the intestines while campaigning in 2018.
He was seriously...
The WHO has warned there is a 'strong likelihood' of dangerous Covid variants spreading around the world as they declared the pandemic is 'nowhere near finished.
An emergency committee of the global health body said the mutant strains will make it even harder for the pandemic to come to an...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has detected a confirmed case with the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant, also known as lineage B.1.617.2.
A statement released by NCDC'S head of Communications, Dr. Yahya Disu, says the variant was detected in a traveler to Nigeria, following the routine travel test required of...
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared China malaria-free after a 70 years effort to eradicate the disease.
The WHO announced on Wednesday that China, which used to report 30 million annual cases of malaria in the 1940s, was free of the mosquito-borne infectious disease. The country has not reported a new case...
India has reported more than 30 million Covid-19 cases since the pandemic started last year.
Government data showed there were 50,848 infections recorded over a 24-hour period on Wednesday, bringing the total reported cases to 30.02 million. The reported daily death toll was 1,358.
The United States is the only country...
The World Health Organisation has renamed the Indian variant, also known as B.1.617.2, the Delta variant.
Under WHO's new plans, the UK's Kent strain will also be known as 'Covid Alpha' while South Africa's variant will become 'Covid Beta', with the Brazilian variant to be known as 'Covid Gamma'.
WHO's Covid-19 technical lead...
Additional 132 persons have been declared wanted by the federal government for violating COVID-19 guidelines.
The announcement was made by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and Chairman Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha on Thursday May 27, few days after 90 persons were also...
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has disclosed that a total of 4,683 people have received the second dose of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in the country.
NPHCDA Executive Director, Dr Faisal Shuaib made the disclosure at a press conference to update Nigerians on the status of the vaccination exercise in Abuja on...
The UK Health Secretary, Matt Hancock has told members of the parliament (MP) that there are now almost 3,000 cases of the Indian variant in the UK.
Matt Hancock disclosed this while giving a general update on Covid-19 as fears mount about the Indian variant.
He said 2,967 cases of the...
Malawi on Wednesday, May 19, destroyed 19,610 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines that expired 18 days after arriving, despite assurances from the African Union (AU) and World Health Organisation (WHO) that the vaccines were safe until mid-July.
The vaccines were part of the batch of 102,000 that had arrived in...
An event in Rivers state came to an abrupt end recently after one of the male attendees suffered a cardiac arrest while he was dancing and died on the spot.
The man clad in a white top and a black trouser, took to the center stage to entertain the guests with...
India's coronavirus death toll passed 200,000 on Wednesday April 28, with more than 3,000 fatalities reported in just 24 hours, as the World Health Organization warned that a variant of Covid-19 to be contributing to a surge in cases in India has been found in 17 countries.
A total of...
77 inmates of IOWA prison were given overdoses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine by Prison staff.
The incident took place at the state’s maximum-security prison at Fort Madison where some inmates may have received six times the normal dose, the Iowa Department of Corrections confirmed.
None of the inmates became ill enough...
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...
