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...
Fabrizio Soccorsi, the personal doctor of Pope Francis has died from COVID-19 complications.
Catholic News Agency reported that the 78-year-old physician was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital for a previous health issue on December 26. While he was dealing with an “oncological pathology,” COVID was the cause of death, the Vatican’s newspaper L’Osservatore...
Nigeria recorded 1544 new cases of COVID19 on Friday, January 8.
According to the Nigeria Center for Disease Control NCDC, Lagos recorded 739 fresh cases, the highest for the day.
Other states with fresh cases include Plateau-168, FCT-153, Oyo-91, Nasarawa-90, Rivers-80, Kaduna-35, Edo-33, Kano-29, Ogun-21, Delta-19, Sokoto-16, Akwa Ibom-11, Ebonyi-11, Enugu-10, Osun-10, Niger-9, Bauchi-8,...
Lagos Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi has disclosed that at least 51 percent of beds in both private and public COVID-19 care centres in the state have been occupied.
Abayomi reeled out the figures on Friday January 8, while giving an update on the Coronavirus situation in the state.
He also disclosed that...
China has locked down a city of 11 million people in its northern province of Hebei, in order to contain the country's worst coronavirus flare-up in months.
Residents of Shijiazhuang, a provincial capital close to Beijing, have been barred from leaving the city, as major highways were blocked, train and...
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffery Onyeama, says the Federal Government is currently in talks with China to have access to COVID19 vaccines for Nigeria.
Onyeama made this disclosure while briefing newsmen shortly after a bilateral meeting with the Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, who was in Nigeria on a...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Tuesday January 5, announced that 1,354 new cases of Coronavirus were recorded in Nigeria.
The health agency gave a breakdown of the new cases as follows; Lagos-712, FCT-145, Plateau-117, Kwara-81, Kaduna-54, Sokoto-39, Oyo-38, Rivers-37, Gombe-21, Enugu-20, Akwa Ibom-16, Bauchi-14, Delta-14, Ebonyi-13, Anambra-9, Taraba-8, Edo-8, Kano-3,...
Prolific music producer and music industry giant, Dr Dre suffered brain aneurysm on Monday January 4 and is currently receiving treatment at Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
The rapper and producer whose real name is Andre Young, was reportedly rushed by ambulance to the medical center’s intensive care unit on Monday. Though...
A Wisconsin pharmacist has been fired after he was suspected of intentionally spoiling more than 500 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Steven R. Brandenburg, 46, was released from custody Monday, Jan 4, while prosecutors determine if the charges being considered against him are legitimate.
He confessed to police that he deliberately tried...
A Portuguese health worker has died two days after getting the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine.
41-year-old Sonia Acevedo, who worked in paediatrics at the Portuguese Institute of Oncology in Porto, suffered a 'sudden death' at home on New Year's Day 48 hours after receiving the jab.
The mother-of-two is not said to...
UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson has announced a new national lockdown until at least mid-February to combat a fast-spreading new variant of the coronavirus.
According to Johnson the move was necessary to aid the containing of the disease variant, even as Britain ramped up its vaccination program by becoming the...
As Nigeria prepares to receive its first consignment of COVID-19 vaccines, two scientists have cautioned the Federal Government against a mass COVID-19 vaccination plan.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, in December 2020 revealed that the Federal Government had planned to...
A California nurse has tested positive for COVID-19 just eight days after receiving the vaccination.
ER nurse Matthew W., received the Pfizer vaccine on December 18, and took to his Instagram page to share a picture of the certificate he got after taking the vaccine.
'Got my Covid vaccine! The 15...
US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has received Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine live on television a week after President-elect, Joe Biden got vaccinated.
Kamala, 56, who appeared very relaxed, received the injection at United Medical Center in Washington DC on Tuesday, December 29.
'OK, let's do it,' she said, as registered nurse Patricia...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed that a “super gonorrhea” is spreading fast due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The agency says the disease is spreading due to actual antibiotic overuse for those infected with the novel coronavirus.
The agency also states the sexually transmitted infection (STI) may become even more...
A 75-year-old man from Northern Israel died of a heart attack about two hours after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, December 28, the Health Ministry has confirmed.
The man had pre-existing conditions and had suffered from heart attacks in the past, the ministry said.
Chezy Levy, the Health Ministry director-general...
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has announced that 20 doctors died of Coronavirus complications within the past seven days.
Enema Amodu, chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in the federal capital territory (FCT) said this during a press briefing on Friday December 25.
Amodu stated that medical personnel are in need of personal...
A lady has shared details of what happened to her brother after he recently got infected by the mutated Coronavirus.
Health experts across the world are currently battling to understand the mutated Coronavirus.
Twitter user @Jennydissents shared a photo of her brother's eye after he got infected. She wrote
''My brother has...
The UK has recorded its highest ever daily rise in coronavirus infections, with 35,928 new Covid-19 cases reported on Sunday December 20, as the new Covid strain causes a 94.8 percent rise in infections.
This brings the total number of coronavirus cases in the UK to more than 2.04 million.
A...
UK-based Nigerian doctor and social media influencer, Dr Olufunmilayo has raised an alarm of a new mutated Coronavirus which have been reported in London, United Kingdom.
In tweets he shared, Olufunmilayo revealed that many countries in Europe like Germany, Italy, France, Belgium and Holland have now banned flights from UK...
A passenger on a United jet with nearly 200 others onboard was pronounced dead shortly after the pilot made an emergency landing.
The passenger had filled out a required checklist before flying on Monday, Dec 14, saying he had not tested positive for the novel coronavirus and did not have symptoms.
United says...
A Tennessee nurse fainted live on television just 17 minutes after getting the Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine.
Nurse Tiffany Dover was among the first nurses in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to receive the vaccine on Thursday, December 17.
She was having an interview with local news outlet News Channel 9 when the incident occurred....
1145 fresh cases of COVID19 were recorded in Nigeria on Thursday, December 17.
According to the Nigeria Center for Disease Control NCDC, Lagos recorded 459 fresh cases while the Federal Capital Territory recorded 145 fresh cases.
Other states with fresh cases include Kaduna-138, Plateau-80, Katsina-70, Gombe-52, Niger-31, Kano-23. Bayelsa-21, Bauchi-18, Ondo-18, Rivers-17, Ogun-12, Oyo-12,...
France's President, Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for Covid-19, the Elysee Palace said in a press release on Thursday December 17.
"The President of the Republic has been diagnosed positive for Covid-19 today," the statement read.
It said the president was diagnosed after he was tested "at the onset of the...
Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has tested positive for COVID19.
The state Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi, disclosed this on Twitter on Saturday evening, December 12.
On Friday December 11, Governor Sanwo-Olu went into isolation after one of his aides tested positive for the novel virus.
Abayomi's statement reads
''Following Lagos State Governor...
As the US government prepares to authorize immediate distribution of Covid-19 vaccine, Wall Street analysts are projecting pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Moderna will generate $32 billion in Covid-19 vaccine revenue, next year alone.
According to Wall Street analyst, Morgan Stanley, Pfizer (PFE) by itself is projected to make $19 billion...
The US government has finally approved the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use.
The Food and Drug Administration is “rapidly” working toward clearing Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use after a key panel overwhelmingly endorsed the shots Thursday evening, December 10, Commissioner Stephen Hahn said in a statement Friday.
Stephen Hahn, the Commissioner of...
The Rwandan government has announced plans to offer free COVID-19 vaccination to citizens when the country receives the vaccine next year.
Health Minister Daniel Ngamije made the announcement during an interview with public broadcaster Rwanda Television on Friday, December 11.
"We will start with health personnel because they are part of...
Israel on Wednesday December 9, received its first batch of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declaring that the pandemic's end was "insight" and vowing to get the first jab.
"This is a great celebration for Israel," he said on the tarmac at Ben Gurion airport, near Tel...
The first doses of the Covid-19 vaccine were given to Brits on Tuesday, Dec 8, but one day after V day, UK health regulators have issued a warning to people with a history of "significant" allergic reactions not to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.
This warning comes after two NHS staff suffered allergic reactions...
Canada has become the second country after the UK to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine and may start immunizing residents from next week.
On Wednesday, the country's health regulator, Health Canada, posted on its website that it had authorized the jab after a two-month independent review on safety and efficacy.
'Canadians...
Queen Elizabeth II will reportedly receive the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine within weeks after UK regulators granted approval with the world's first roll-out to begin this week.
The monarch, 94, and her 99-year-old husband Prince Philip are in line to get the jab early due to their age and will not receive...
The UK has taken a major step by becoming the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for widespread use.
The move comes a day after Pfizer/BioNTech submitted their approval applications to the European Medicines Agency (EMA),
British regulator, the MHRA, says the jab, which offers up to 95%...
The Japanese Government has confirmed that all of its residents will get free coronavirus vaccines under a bill passed on Wednesday, December 2, as the nation battles record numbers of daily cases.
The bill, which says the government will cover all vaccine costs for Japan's 126 million residents, was approved...
A female student who collapsed at home on her 22nd birthday has been given just 18 months to live after she was diagnosed with a brain tumour.
Beautiful Amani was rushed to Luton and Dunstable Hospital on April 29, her 22nd birthday, after collapsing at home.
She spent four days there, before...
US President-elect, Joe Biden suffered an ankle injury while playing with his pet dog called Major on Saturday, November 28,2020, it has been revealed
According to the office of the President-elect who released the information on Sunday, November 29, Biden twisted his ankle and will undergo further examination.
His office said...
North Korean hackers are suspected to have carried out a cyberattack against British coronavirus vaccine developer AstraZeneca recently according to a new report by Reuters.
According to Reuters, North Korean hackers posed as recruiters on social networking site LinkedIn and WhatsApp in order to approach AstraZeneca staff, including those working...
According to reports emanating from the UK, the new covid-19 vaccine could be given to National Health scheme (NHS) staff in the next ten days before it is rolled out to care home residents and the over-80s.
According to the Guardian, the NHS England expect to get stocks of vaccines...
