COVID-19

The Director General, World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, has warned that COVID-19 is not over in spite of reports that COVID-19 cases and deaths have declined significantly. Ghebreyesus said this at the opening of…

A traditional ruler in Nasarawa state, the Sangarin Shabu, Mahmoud Bwalla, has commended the Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Shauib Faisal, for his efforts in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic in…

The United States Food and Drug Administration has approved for emergency use a single booster dose of Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11. FDA said, the booster dose, should come at least five months after the…

South Africa is experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases driven by two omicron sub-variants, according to health experts. The new increase in COVID cases is coming as the country enters the Southern Hemisphere's colder winter months,…

China's financial and manufacturing hub, Shanghai will begin reopening of businesses such as shopping malls and hair salons in from Monday, after weeks in strict COVID-19 lockdown. Shanghai is tightening curbs in some areas that it hopes…

Pakistan reported 93 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the country’s ministry of health said on Friday. According to the data released by the ministry of health, the tally of infected people increased to 1,529,080 after adding the new…

North Korea has confirmed on Friday that, one person has died of COVID-19 and hundreds of thousands have shown fever symptoms. The nuclear-armed country announced on Thursday its first coronavirus outbreak since the pandemic began,…

Beijing has reported 39 new domestically transmitted COVID-19 infections during the 24 hours on Sunday, according to a disease control official at the Chinese capital. The deputy director at Beijing Municipal Health Commission, Pang…

China's Capital, Beijing has closed up entrances to more than 40 subway stations and 158 bus routes, to curb the wide spread of Omicron variant of COVID-19. The country has nearly 450 new cases since April, after testing 22 million…

China's commercial capital of Shanghai has reported 58 new COVID-19 cases outside areas under lockdown, while Beijing pressed on with testing millions of people. According to the authorities, coronavirus measures in Shanghai have stirred…