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Kenyan civil servants have until late August to get vaccinated against Covid-19 or risk disciplinary action, according to a government document made public this week. The order comes as parliament is due to consider a motion to bar unvaccinated people or those without negative Covid certificates from certain public and private spaces. Kenya is […]
Nigeria has received four million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from the United States as it steps up efforts to battle a third wave of infections. The doses, which arrived on two planes on Sunday, were received by UNICEF officials on behalf of Nigeria at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, according to […]
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) recorded 48 new COVID-19 infection on Wednesday, according to its website on Thursday. It revealed that the country’s COVID-19 active cases now stood at 2,138 with majority in a stable conditions. The public health agency noted that no death was recorded on Wednesday keeping the fatality toll […]
The Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Faisal Shuaib, has said a total of 3.4 million doses of Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses have so far been utilized for the 1st and 2nd rounds. This he said was approximately 88 per cent of the total COVID-19 vaccine stock in the country. […]
The Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19 has extended the ban on flights from Brazil, Turkey and India by four weeks. Speaking at the national briefing in Abuja on Monday, the Chairman, PSC on COVID-19, Mr Boss Mustapha, said “a few weeks ago, we announced additional measures to be met by passengers arriving from […]
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 11 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 166, 767. The centre said the 11 new infections were recorded in Lagos with nine cases, the FCT-one and Kano-one. The NCDC also said that there are 1, 544 active […]
China reported the world’s first human infection of the H10N3 bird flu strain on Tuesday but said the risk of it spreading widely among people was low. A 41-year-old man was admitted to hospital with fever symptoms in the eastern city of Zhenjiang on April 28 and was diagnosed with H10N3 a month later, […]
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar yesterday congratulated Nigerian children on the occasion of Children’s Day. Atiku, in a message released by his media office in Abuja said it was incumbent the society to ensure that they (children) attain their full potential in life. The former Vice President expressed regrets and disappointments that efforts to […]
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 48 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 166,146. The NCDC made this known on its official Twitter handle on Wednesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Nigeria recorded the new cases and zero COVID-19 related […]
Governors of the 36 states of Nigeria are to meet on May 19, to address matters arising from a variety of challenges facing the country. The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) disclosed this in a statement issued by the Head, Media and Public Affairs of its Secretariat, Mr Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo in Abuja on Monday. Bello-Barkindo […]
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