Tag: #COVID-19
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UK donates 1.2m COVID-19 vaccines to Nigeria – Envoy
Ms. Catriona Laing, United Kingdom High Commissioner to Nigeria, says the UK Government has donated 1.2 million COVID-19 vaccines, through COVAX to Nigeria.The Envoy said in a statement in Lagos on Saturday that the vaccines administered in the country were recognised by the UK Government. “The UK Government is committed to global access to vaccines…
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UNGA 76: Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala, top politicians canvass global COVID-19 vaccine equity
Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), and top politicians joined award-winning African performers and others on Tuesday, in New York, to take part in a special event to discuss COVID-19 vaccine equity. The UN correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the event was organised by the UN…
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UNGA 76: Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala, top politicians canvass global COVID-19 vaccine equity
Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), and top politicians joined award-winning African performers and others on Tuesday, in New York, to take part in a special event to discuss COVID-19 vaccine equity. The UN correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the event was organised by the UN…
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NCDC announces three additional COVID-19 related deaths, 513 new cases
Fourteen states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), have announced 513 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, according to figures released on Wednesday morning by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control,(NCDC). The NCDC added that the 513 new cases, bring the total number of infections in the country to 202,704. The additional 513 COVID-19 infections, on Tuesday…
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Research: IHVN joins 5-year multi-country project to improve maternal, new born health
The Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN) has joined a multi -country research project to improve Maternal and Newborn health in conflict-affected countries, including Nigeria, according to Dr. Emilia Iwu, Senior Technical Advisor, IHVN. Iwu, who disclosed this in an interview on Sunday, in Abuja, added that the five-year project would focus its research on…
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COVID-19: Lagos govt. to hold weekend vaccination
Commissioner for Health in Lagos, Prof. Akin Abayomi, says the state government will administer Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to eligible residents between Aug. 28 and Aug. 29. Abayomi disclosed this in a statement issued on Friday in Lagos after receiving the preliminary report of the day- three of the vaccination exercise in the state. He said…
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Africa’s COVID-19 cases resurge by 20% as U.S. donates additional 20m doses
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says Africa has marked its worst pandemic week ever, as cases rose for seven consecutive weeks since the start of the third wave in May. Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, said this while briefing correspondents at the UN headquarters in New York, on Thursday, on the COVID-19 situation…
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Africa’s COVID-19 cases resurge by 20% as U.S. donates additional 20m doses
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says Africa has marked its worst pandemic week ever, as cases rose for seven consecutive weeks since the start of the third wave in May. Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, said this while briefing correspondents at the UN headquarters in New York, on Thursday, on the COVID-19 situation…
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2m Nigerians receive COVID-19 jabs
More than two million Nigerians have received the first dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency declared in Abuja on Thursday. Its Executive Director, Dr Faisal Shuaib, told newsmen that 2,099,568 people have been vaccinated with their first doses, while 1,005,234 have received their second doses of the vaccine as…
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COVID-19: Pakistan set to block Mobile phones of unvaccinated people
A Pakistan province said Friday it will block the mobile phones of people refusing to get Covid-19 jabs, in the latest move to penalise the unvaccinated in a country where only a fraction of the population have been inoculated. It comes after Sindh province said civil servants who refuse to be vaccinated will not be…