COVID-19

France will start offering a fourth COVID-19 vaccination shot to people over 80 years old who have received their booster dose on Monday. French Prime Minister Jean Castex said, “The vaccination campaign will also be extended to people…

The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has confirmed 8 new cases of Covid-19 on Sunday,13th March 2022. With the new figures, the confirmed cases in Nigeria have risen to 254,953  with 249,340 Discharged and 3,142 Deaths. On…

The Nigeria Network of NGOs (NNNGO), says the exclusive control of COVID-19 vaccines, test and treatment by 'big' pharmaceutical companies continue to put the world at risk of the next deadly variant of the virus. READ ALSO: Nigerian…

South Korea has reported 282,987 new COVID-19 cases, compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 5,822,626, the health authorities said on Friday. According to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency…

Zimbabwe has signed a 6.6 million US dollar grant with the World Bank, aimed at boosting the country’s Covid-19 vaccination program. “Financing for the project, which comes in the form of a grant, aims to support the deployment and…

An infectious diseases physician, Dr. Iorhen Akase, has urged governments at all levels to review their COVID-19 response guidelines to suit the current infection figures. READ ALSO: Festivities: FCTA vows to enforce COVID-19 guidelines…

Mainland China has logged its highest number of daily new local symptomatic COVID-19 infections in about two years, as the highly transmissible Omicron variant pressures its stringent policy to curb each outbreak quickly. China reported…

ECOWAS Parliament has called for more precautionary measures to check the possible emergence of yet another variant of COVID 19 in the region. This is even as the Community Parliament also said that it will build consensus against…

According to the latest data from the World Health Organization (WHO), the number of COVID-19 deaths worldwide is close to 6 million. “Globally, there have been 440,807,756 confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 5,978,096 deaths, reported…

The World Health Organisation (WHO), has conditionally recommended the antiviral drug molnupiravir, for patients with non-severe COVID-19 infection, who are at the highest risk of hospitalisation. This was disclosed in a statement issued…