Five years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic swept across Nigeria, exposing weaknesses in the health system while also sparking resilience and…
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The World Health Organization on Monday implored China to share data and access to help understand how Covid-19 began, five years on from the start of the pandemic that upended the planet.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported that more seven million deaths from COVID-19 have been recorded in the past five years.
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.
The establishment of an “mRNA hub” in South Africa to build the capacity of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to…
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,…