Nigeria would receive 470,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines from the Chinese government, according to China’s Ambassador to Nigeria, CUI Jianchun. CUI Jianchun made the donation to the Nigerian Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, in Abuja, on Friday, July 23, 2021. According to the Ambassador, the gesture is a result of the good relationship between […]Read More
Nigeria would receive 4 million doses of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine from the United States of America, according to White House officials. The US government announced it had on Wednesday shipped nearly 10 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to two of the most populous African countries – Nigeria and South Africa – as the continent […]Read More
The World Bank Group has said it has provided over $157billion in 15 months as financing relief to help developing countries survive the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. This was according to a press statement titled ‘World Bank Group’s $157bn pandemic surge is largest crisis response in its history’ which was published on the bank’s […]Read More
The World Bank has said that between March 2020 and July 2021, an estimated 4,000 children in Nigeria were orphaned as a result of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a statistical report released by the Bank experts at the Imperial College of London. The report also revealed that over 4,100 Nigerian children […]Read More
Pfizer and BioNTech laboratories have begun the process of partially producing Covid-19 vaccines in South Africa to bridge vaccine scarcity in Africa. In a statement detailing the alliance’s first partnership outside Europe and North America, Biotech explained that they had partnered with Pfizer and Biovac Group, intending to supply up to 100 million doses per […]Read More
Africa is currently experiencing a surge in Covid-19 cases, with a new record average of 6,009,854 cases, according to an AFP tally based on official sources on Tuesday at 1815 GMT. The new figures make up cumulative cases from Africa’s 54 nations and territories since the virus was first discovered in December 2019 in China. […]Read More
On Thursday, one of Nigeria’s largest universities sent residential students home and said it would suspend physical attendance of lectures as fears grow about a new wave of coronavirus in Africa’s most populous nation. The governing body of the University Of Lagos (UNILAG) said the decision was made after a few reported Covid-19 cases in […]Read More
South Africa’s government has started vaccinating the nation’s police officers as part of the second phase of its coronavirus vaccination campaign. A vaccination site has been set up at the Orlando Stadium in Soweto In Gauteng province, the epicentre of the country’s devastating third wave. “It’s [getting vaccinated] gonna make a big difference. I mean, […]Read More
The World Health Organization has revealed that Covid-19 fatalities driven by the lack of intensive-care beds and oxygen in Africa have now reached a new 43% high in a space of one week. Coronavirus-linked deaths in the WHO’s African region, which includes North Africa, rose to 6,273 in the week of July 5-11, compared with […]Read More
Nigeria might be experiencing the third wave of Covid-19 infections as predicted by the World Health Organization, following reports of a rise in infection rates and the presence of the infamous Delta variant as reported by Nigeria’s National Centre For Disease Control (NCDC). Until last week, Nigeria was recording fewer than 40 cases daily on […]Read More
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