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Covid 19: Two Compulsory Tests For All UK Arrivals
If you have plans to travel to the UK anytime soon, you might need to be prepaid for the UK’s new arrival rules. All travellers to the UK would now be required to take two coronavirus tests while quarantining. The new testing policy comes amid concern about new variants entering the country that are more…
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BUA, CACOVID Battle Over Vaccine Donations
Leading food and infrastructure conglomerate, BUA, and the private sector-led Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) are currently at loggerheads following BUA’s announcement of the purchase of one million doses of Covid-19 vaccine for Nigeria. The CACOVID Point Of View The private sector-led coalition against COVID-19 (CACOVID) on Monday, February 9, 2020, opposed an earlier statement credited to…
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A Look At Global Expectations For 2021
At the beginning of the year, many hoped for economic recovery and of course accessibility to vaccines. While some of our expectations might be slowly coming through, here is a look of the general public’s expectation for 2021 as researched by Ipsos. Despite the terrible loses of last year, 2020 and the first month into…
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Fact-Check : WHO Did Not Disqualify Nigeria From Global Vaccine Bid
Contrary to the news making the rounds, The World Health Organisation (WHO) has not disqualified Nigeria from the global vaccine bid. According to Public Health Epidemiologist and WHO Representative, Kazadi Mulombo, Nigeria as a member state of the COVAX facility can not be disqualified from accessing an approved vaccine for their population. The Truth? Matshidiso…
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2021 Week 5: COVID-19 Cases Drops For The Second Time Consecutively
The number of COVID-19 cases recorded in the fifth week of 2020 totalled 8470. This is a drop from over 9000 and 11,000 cases recorded in the fourth and third week consecutively. The average number of cases are recorded 1210 per day. At the beginning of the week, 1114 cases were recorded on Friday. This…
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WHO: 130 Countries, 2.5 billion People Yet To Be vaccinated
The World Health Organisation has disclosed that about 130 countries, with 2.5 billion people, are yet to administer a single dose of COVID-19 vaccine. This disclosure was made by the WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus at a regular press briefing on COVID-19, in Geneva. “Around 130 countries, with 2.5 billion people, are yet to administer…
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Covid-19: Nigeria’s New Law Prescribes 6 Months Jail Term For Safety Violators
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed a new law that prescribes a 6-month jail term for anyone who is caught in public without a mask on. The new law designed to curb the spread of Covid-19 pandemic is targeted at forcing people to take safety protocols more seriously. The chairman of the Presidential Task Force on…
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Global Increase In Covid-19 Vaccine Enthusiasm
As the world battles with growing cases of Covid-19, a recent Ipsos MORI poll has found that vaccine hesitancy is now transitioning into a global enthusiasm for access. The issue of supply has recently made the rounds with AstraZeneca informing the European Commission that there would be a major shortfall in the number of doses it is…
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COVID-19 Killed 405 Persons In two Months
The Presidential Task Force in COVID-19 reported that 405 deaths have been recorded in two months, between November and January. PTF Chairman and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha, said the fatality rate is 34 percent higher. COVID-19-related deaths increased from 1,173 as of last November 29 to 1,578 on…
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STUDY: Insufficient ICU Beds Linked To Thousands Of COVID-19 Deaths
A research study by Yale researchers claimed that during the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, the increasing records of deaths were tied to the lack of ICU beds in hospitals. According to the study published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine, it found a significant association between the availability of hospital resources, particularly ICU…