The world remains unprepared for another pandemic, according to the International Pandemic Preparedness Secretariat (IPPS) which published its Fourth Implementation Report…
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Five years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic swept across Nigeria, exposing weaknesses in the health system while also sparking resilience and…
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…