Omicron
North Korea says six people have died amid an ‘explosive’ spread of fever, a day after it acknowledged a COVID-19 outbreak. North Korea said Friday that 187,000 people were being “isolated and treated” for fever. “A fever whose cause couldn’t be identified explosively spread nationwide from late April,” the official Korean Central News Agency […]
COVID-19 vaccines will be here for the long-term, and could become part of the annual range of booster shots offered, leading vaccine makers predicted on Monday. COVID-19 mRNA vaccine manufacturers Moderna and Pfizer are each working on new versions of their jabs geared towards tackling the Omicron variant, company bosses said. Speaking at the […]
Following the expiration of one million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19 has announced that the country will no longer accept vaccines with short-shelf life as it mounts to undue pressure on health workers to administer them. The Executive Director/CEO of National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr Faisal […]
Doctors under the aegis of the Medical Guild have advised the public against letting down their guard as the festive season approaches, to avoid an emergence of COVID-19 fourth wave. Dr Oluwajimi Sodipo, Chairman of the Guild, gave the advice at a news conference announcing activities for the association’s scientific conference, in Lagos. The […]
The Canadian government has banned travellers from Nigeria and nine other African countries over concerns about the spread of the Omicron COVID-19 variant. The country earlier announced a ban on South Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Namibia. In a statement on Tuesday, it said it was expanding the travel ban to Egypt, […]
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Wednesday has announced that Nigeria has now reported three cases of the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus. A statement signed by the Director-General, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, partly reads, “The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control conducts case and genomic surveillance for inbound international travellers arriving in the […]
UN Secretary-General, António Guterres has expressed deep concern over the restrictions imposed on travellers from southern African countries due to the emergence of the new Coronavirus (COVID-19) variant, Omicron. Guterres, in a statement on Monday said, people of Africa should not be blamed for the immorally low level of vaccinations available in the continent. […]
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), says it is monitoring emerging evidence on Omicron variant and its implication, to inform Nigeria’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Director General, NCDC, Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Sunday in Abuja. NAN reports that […]
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