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Should You Be Worried About The New Cases Of Coronavirus In Nigeria?
As the world slowly eases restrictions and adjusts to life post-covid, countries have recorded new frightening cases of the coronavirus. According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), about 144 cases of covid-19 were recorded from August 14 to 15, 2022. On its official website on Tuesday, the NCDC stated that out of the…
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COVAX: How Nigeria Received Over 20 Million Doses In Two Years
On the night of Feb. 27, 2020, Nigeria reported its first case of COVID-19 in the country. The case was an Italian citizen who works in Nigeria and returned from Milan, Italy to Lagos, Nigeria on the 25th of February 2020. He was confirmed by the Virology Laboratory of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, part…
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How Travelers, Transporters Fail To Take Precautions Amid Increasing Cases Of COVID-19 (1)
For Twentyten Daily, Precious Ewuji and Faith Omoniyi, visited various parks in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, to observe the ignorance of travelers and transporters to COVID-19 protocols during the festive season despite recording increasing cases in the state. Funsho Olapade had set out on a sunny afternoon – just about five days to the Christmas…
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FG Suspends Roll Out Of New Covid-19 Vaccines
The Federal government has postponed the rollout of COVID-19 Moderna vaccine doses received from the American government, according to a statement by The Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 (PSC). In May, the US pledged to share 80 million vaccines with countries around the world to aid the fight against coronavirus. Nigeria received 4 million doses…
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Covid-19: Nigerian Health Centres Lack Capacity To Administer Vaccines
An estimate of 80 percent primary healthcare centres in 15 states of Nigeria lack the capacity to administer COVID-19 vaccines. This is according to a field research conducted by the Connected Development (CODE), a non-governmental organization tracking government’s expenditure.Q Nigeria received 3.92 million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines in March – the first batch of…
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ANALYSIS: COVID-19, Cholera Threaten Nigeria Health System
Nigeria’s health care system might be under pressure to intensify efforts as it battles the increasing cases of COVID-19 and Cholera outbreaks in some states. COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria had entered its third wave after the recent upsurge in reported cases. Nigeria now has over 168,000 cases of the virus with over 164,000 discharged and…
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Nigeria To Get 3.93 Million Doses Of Covax
Nigeria is expected to receive 3.92 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine from the COVAX facility between the end of July and early August. Meanwhile, the administration of the second dose of Oxford AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine in the country will also end by 25th June 2021. The Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency…
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Nigeria Imposes Fresh Nationwide Lockdown
The Nigerian government has ordered a partial lockdown across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as fears of a possible new wave of the coronavirus looms. The National Incident Manager Mukhtar Mohammed, who is a member of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19, announced the new directive on Monday during a…
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2021 Week 17: Covid-19 Cases Drops
Nigeria, in the seventeenth week of 2021, recorded a total of 467 cases of COVID-19. On average, the country had over 66.7 daily records of cases between April 23th and April 29th, 2021. According to Nigerian Center for Disease Control, the country had recorded a total number of 45 cases on Friday, 23th of April.…
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2021 Week 16: Covid-19 Cases Gradually increase
The number of COVID-19 cases recorded in the fifteenth week of 2021 totalled 553. This is a drop from over 499 and 600 cases recorded in week 15 and week 14 consecutively. The average number of cases recorded per day is 79. At the beginning of the week, 67 cases were recorded on Friday. This…