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Nigeria Under Pressure To Suspend Flights From Brazil, India, Turkey
The Nigeria government, under pressure to suspend flights from Turkey, India and Brazil over fears about the spread of the coronavirus, could...
COVID-19 Misinformation: Facebook, WHO launch new campaign across Africa
By Ajuma Edwina Ameh To connect people to accurate information and reduce misinformation on its platforms, Facebook is launching a new...
FG launches COVID-19 vaccination March 5 for frontline health workers
By Ajuma Edwina Ameh Two days after receiving the first batch of the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccines, the Federal Government says it...
Nigeria takes delivery of COVID-19 vaccines shipped by COVAX
Nigeria on Tuesday morning received about 4 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, shipped via the COVAX facility, a partnership between CEPI,...
Nigeria receives 16m doses of COVID-19 vaccines
Contrary to some media reports, the World Health Organisation (WHO) says about 16 million AstraZeneca doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been received...
Nigeria unveils plan to receive 20m COVID-19 vaccines as rich countries hoard doses
Nigeria has announced plans to receive 20 million Covid-19 vaccines early next year, according to the Executive Secretary, National Primary Health Care Development...
COVID-19: FG excited about WHO’s roll-out of 120m rapid testing kits with result out in 30 minutes
The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 is excited about the roll-out of 120 million rapid testing kits by the World Health...
Protecting the Girl-Child against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) during COVID-19
In spite of extant laws, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is still widespread in Nigeria because of the culture of silence about the...
US CDC tells states to prep for November Covid-19 vaccine roll-out
The United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has asked states to prepare for Covid-19 vaccine distribution as soon as late...
UN warns of ‘alarming decline’ in childhood vaccinations due to Coronavirus
The United Nations on Wednesday warned of an alarming drop in childhood vaccinations because of the Covid-19 pandemic, saying a child born...
Coronavirus antibiotics abuse: More deaths likely, says WHO
With unrestrained abuse and unauthorised use of antibiotics to treat COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday warned that...
Locally-made face mask: WHO counsels on how to wear, remove, wash it
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released new guidelines on the use of homemade or locally-made face masks for the...
WHO Says Masks Alone Cannot Prevent Coronavirus
The World health Organization, (WHO) has warned countries opening up their economies not to let their guard down amid the coronavirus pandemic. WHO’s...
WHO suspends trials of hydroxychloroquine, citing safety
The World Health Organization announced Monday a “temporary pause” on the inclusion of an anti-malarial drug. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said...
COVID-19: Commonwealth health ministers endorse zero fees for tests, treatment
By Ajuma Edwina Ogiri In a renewed effort to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, the commonwealth health ministers have endorsed the removal of...
Trump threatens to make suspension of WHO funding permanent
President Donald Trump threatened to permanently end funding to the World Health Organization and reconsider the country’s membership in the global health...
