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2021 Week 11: Weekly Record Drops To Over 1,000
The number of COVID-19 cases recorded in the eleventh week of 2021 totalled 1,463. This is a drop from over 2,000 and 3,000 cases recorded in week 10 and week 9 consecutively. The average number of cases recorded per day. At the beginning of the week, 399 cases were recorded on Friday. This subsequently dropped to…
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Survey: 17% Enterprises Still Closed Due To COVID-19 Effect
The National Bureau of Statistics has revealed that about 17 percent of non-farm enterprises have remained shut due to the adverse effect of COVID-19 as of December 2020. The NBS disclosed this in its ‘COVID-19 impact monitoring report’ for November/December 2020. Part of the report read on non-farm enterprise read, “Even with respondents back at…
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3.9M COVAX: Abia, Ebonyi, Borno, Kaduna Receive Vaccine
Four other states have received doses of 3.94 million Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 given to Nigeria. The four states got a total number 358, 920 doses of the vaccine– Abia, 61,320; Ebonyi, 42,090; Borno, 75,510; Kaduna, 180,000. The Nigerian government had received 3.94 million COVAX- a vaccine co-led by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the World Health…
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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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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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Nigeria Orders Schools To Resume Amidst Increasing Number of Covid-19 Infections
The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced that January 18 remains the resumption date for all schools across the nation. The announcement was made by the national coordinator of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Dr Sani Aliyu, during a television programme. He revealed that the federal government had no plans of changing the resumption…
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Nigerian Health Facilities In Turmoil Over Increasing Covid-19 Cases
The Minister of State for Health, Sen. Olorunnimbe Mamora, disclosed this at a briefing by the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 on Monday, January 11, 2020. In his submission, Mamora revealed that the number of confirmed cases and the number of active cases have increased, correlating the latest data by the Nigerian Centre For…