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Nigeria Records 7 Cases of UK Variant Of COVID-19
Nigeria has reported seven cases of the new UK variant of COVID-19. The new variant has been identified in Osun, Kwara and Abuja. The Federal Government stated that the Africa Centre for Excellence in Genomics in Ede identified five cases in Osun, one in Kwara, and one in Abuja. However, of the three states, Abuja…
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Tokyo Olympics To Hold Despite Pandemic
Games organizing committee President Yoshiro Mori has said the pandemic-delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be held this year despite health warnings and lack of public support. Deputy head of the London 2012 organising committee, Sir Keith Mills, earlier this week said he felt it was ‘unlikely’ that Tokyo would take place amid the ongoing Covid…
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22 Containers Distributed To Morgues As Covid Deaths Soar In South Africa
Afrikaanse Verbond Begrafnis Ondernemings Beperk (AVBOB) has installed 22 containers at Johannesburg morgues to help cope with a rising tide of Covid-19 deaths. Each container is said to store up to 40 corpses, keeping them at a constant zero degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit) South Africa is Africa’s worst-hit country in the pandemic, recording an…
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2021 Week 4: Weekly COVID-19 Cases Drop In Fourth Week
The total cases of COVID-19 recorded in the fourth week of 2021 have dropped to 9538 against the 11,000 cases recorded in the previous week. On averagely, Nigeria had 1362.5 cases reported daily in the fourth week. According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Nigeria reported 1483 cases of COVID-19 on Friday and increased…
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Expert Says Nigeria Has Lost N11.6 trillion to COVID-19
Financial analyst Tony Edeh has put the cost of the coronavirus pandemic on the Nigerian economy at N11. 6 trillion while discussing triggering inflation and the economy. While decrying poor Foreign Direct Investment, FDI inflows into the country in the past few years, Edeh told The Vanguard that the country was steadily slipping into recession…
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Joe Biden Reinstates Travel Ban, Includes South Africa
U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday reinstated COVID-19 travel restrictions to Brazil, Ireland, the United Kingdom and 26 European countries. He also added South Africa to the list. The travel ban also suspends entry to nearly all foreign nationals who have been in any of the countries on the restricted list at any point during…
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COVID-19 sample tests near 264, 000 In Lagos
The State’s Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi has disclosed the alarming number of Covid-19 sample tests in the state since the start of the pandemic. In a tweet posted on Wednesday, January 20, Abayomi revealed that 285, 948 total samples were tested, out of which 263, 358 were valid. He said that the remaining…
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Crowd At Heathrow Airport Spark Social Distancing Concerns
New pictures of a mammoth crowd with limited social distancing at the Heathrow Airport has sparked serious concerns for the apparent risk of the spread of coronavirus. One picture was posted by former British ambassador Sir Peter Westmacott was captioned: “T2 Heathrow Friday afternoon. No ventilation. Long delays. Super spreading.” This pictures and videos found…
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AstraZeneca to Cut COVID-19 vaccine delivery to EU by 60%
With the European Union’s deal to purchase 300m doses due by 29 January still pending, AstraZeneca has decided to cut deliveries of the Oxford COVID-19 vaccine to the European Union by 60%. AstraZeneca was expected to deliver around 80 million doses to the 27 EU countries by the end of March, an EU official told…
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First Case Of UK Covid-19 Strain Reported In Nigeria
The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 says the B117 variant of COVID-19 first reported in the United Kingdom has been found in Nigeria. Boss Mustapha, PTF chairman and secretary to the government of the federation, made this known at the PTF briefing in Abuja, on Monday, January 25. “Over the last few weeks, the…