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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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Following The Advent Of Covid-19 Variants And Their Impacts In Nigeria
It is a busy day as always in one of the most popular markets in Lagos, with Lagosians shoving at each other as they hurry along to their destination. This is the enormous market known to locals as the Eko market or the Lagos Island market; the hub for anything from knockoff designer wears to…
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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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N194bn COVID-19 Allocation Missing In Four States
According to findings made by transparency and accountability civil society organizations, BudgIT and Follow The Money International, of the total N209.61 billion COVID-19 allocation made to Enugu, Sokoto, Delta and Kaduna states, only N14.73 billion was disbursed by the states. Representative of Follow The Money International, Pearl Utuk, presented the findings at a press conference…
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Nigeria Received Over 9 million COVID-19 Vaccine In 6 Months
Between March and August, Nigeria has received a total of 9,916,320 doses of Covid-19 vaccines, Twentyten Daily tracked. Within this period, Nigeria received four types of vaccine; Oxford-AstraZeneca, Mordena Vaccine, Johnson and Johnson and Covishield COVID-19 Vaccine. A total of 5,338,640 doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was given within the period; 4,000,080 Morderna doses; 177,600 doses…
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4,000 Nigerian Children Orphaned In 16 Months
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…
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2021 Week 14: Covid-19 Cases Drop Below 600
Nigeria, in the fourteen week of 2021, recorded a total of 584 cases of COVID-19. On average, the country had over 83.4 daily records of cases between April 2nd and April 8th, 2021. According to Nigerian Center for Disease Control, the country had recorded a total number of 66 on Friday, 2nd of April. This,…
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2021 Week 13: COVID-19 Cases Drops To Over 700
Nigeria, in the thirteen week of 2021, recorded a total of 722 cases of COVID-19 was reported. On average, the country had over 103.1 daily records of cases between March 26th and April 1st, 2021. According to Nigerian Center for Disease Control, the country had recorded a total number of 113 on Friday, 26th of…
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2021 Week 10: Nigeria Reports Over 2000 Cases
The total cases of COVID-19 reported in Nigeria was 2,233 – an average of 319 reported daily. This is a drop from over 3000 and 4000 cases recorded in week 9 and week 8. At the end of Friday, March 5th, the total reported case of COVID-19 was 371. This however dropped to 195 and…
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2021 Week 9: Weekly Reported Cases Continues To Drop
The total number of reported COVID-19 cases dropped to 3,193 against the over 4000 and 6000 cases reported on week 8 and 7 respectively. The average number of reported cases per day also dropped to 456.1 per day. The Nigerian Center For Disease Control announced 600 cases on Friday, 26th of February. This dropped to…