The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported that more seven million deaths from COVID-19 have been recorded in the past five years.
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The National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) has announced proactive steps to prevent the entry and spread of a new variant of the COVID-19 virus known as XEC, which has been detected in several countries.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has issued a public health advisory urging state governments across the country to enhance public health systems in response to the emergence of a new strain of the coronavirus, the XEC sub-variant.
The Federal Government has clarified that the newly detected XEC COVID-19 variant, identified in Australia and some other countries in Europe, is not in Nigeria.
The World Bank has announced a 500-million-dollar grant to support Nigeria’s recovery efforts from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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When U.S. sprinter Noah Lyles was upset in a race this month at the Paris Olympics, weakened by COVID-19 and…
A significant portion of Africans believe their governments are not fully prepared to handle future public health emergencies like COVID-19,…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that as of July 21, 2024, more than 775 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and over seven million deaths have been reported globally since the pandemic began.
Three years after the Tokyo Olympics were held amid strict precautions and no fans due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, fears of the disease have resurfaced at the Paris Games.