More deaths were recorded globally from COVID in 2021 than for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis combined in 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday. Tedros Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general,…
Read More COVID killed more people this year than HIV, malaria, tuberculosis combined in 2020, says WHO
The United Kingdom is set to be scrap the travel red list as soon as this week. The emergence of Omicron forced thousands of travellers into hotel quarantine at a cost of…
Read More UK to scrap red list, to be replaced with testing for the fully vaccinated – Report
The coronavirus vaccine developed jointly by BioNTech and Pfizer is “still effective” against the Omicron variant of the virus after three doses, the companies said in a statement on Wednesday.…
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By our reporter/ Lagos state is currently experiencing a fourth wave of the COVID pandemic, governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said on Tuesday. The governor, who made the disclosure in a statement,…
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Tuesday confirmed three additional cases of the Omicron COVID-19 variant in Nigeria. Ifedayo Adetifa, NCDC director-general who confirmed the development in a statement, said the new…
Read More Three additional cases of Omicron variant detected in Nigeria