Lagos state’s single-day count of COVID-19 infections has exceeded 1,000 — with 1,040 cases reported on Saturday. This is the highest daily count recorded by the state where the first COVID-19 case in the country was confirmed on Feb 27, 2020. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), in its update for January 30, reported…
The vice-president of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), Adejo Arome, says a significant percentage of doctors at the pediatric department of the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo state, have contracted COVID-19. Speaking in an interview with Channels Television, he expressed concern about the rising number of health workers who have contracted the coronavirus….
The US has recorded over 4,000 COVID-19 deaths in 24 hours, setting an all-time high record. According to data from Johns Hopkins University, the US recorded 4,085 deaths and nearly 275,000 new cases, on Thursday. This is the third consecutive day of record breaking daily deaths from the coronavirus in the US. States such as California,…
The head of the World Health Organisation has said he is “very disappointed” China has denied its experts access to investigating the origins of coronavirus. A ten-strong team of international scientists and virologists had been due to set off in early January as part of a long-awaited mission to probe early cases of coronavirus, first…
Former vice president Atiku Abubakar was seen in viral social media photos receiving what is believed to be a vaccine against the dreaded coronavirus in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, making him the first known Nigerian to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The photos showed the former vice president being injected by health officials in the…
Daniel Olukoya, the General Overseer of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, MFM, has called on Nigerians to take COVID-19 seriously. Olukoya urged Nigerians to adhere strictly to the COVID-19 protocols laid down by the Federal Government because the virus is real. The MFM General Overseer made the appeal yesterday after inaugurating a remodelled…
Spain is to set up a registry of people who refuse to be vaccinated against coronavirus and share it with other European Union nations, the health minister has said. Salvador Illa said the list would not be made accessible to the public or to employers. He said the way to defeat the virus was “to…
Biden spoke out as millions of Americans saw their jobless benefits expire after Trump threw a long-awaited pandemic aid package into doubt—demanding lawmakers approve $2000 instead of the $600 direct payments to US taxpayers. “This abdication of responsibility has devastating consequences. Today, about 10 million Americans will lose unemployment insurance benefits,” Biden said in a statement. The stimulus measure…
We also note that most of the efforts to discover and produce vaccines for the virus have been concentrated in Europe and America, China and Russia, and that virtually all the proposed doses of Covid-19 vaccines have already been bought by wealthy countries, leaving little hope for Africa and other developing countries to access these…
The World Bank has approved Nigeria’s request for a $1.5 billion loan The bank said the facility was prepared jointly with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA). “This country partnership framework will guide our engagement for the next five years in supporting the government of Nigeria’s strategic priorities by…
