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What To Know About The New Omicron Sub-Variant?
The World Health Organization has announced it has discovered a highly contagious sub-variant of the Omicron coronavirus strain. According to the United Nation’s health body, the BA.2, also known as the “stealth variant”, has been detected in 57 countries, including the UK, Sweden, India and the US. According to Denmark’s Statens Serum Institut (SSI), BA.2…
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Uganda To Destroy Donated Doses Of Covid-19 Vaccines
The Ugandan government has announced that up to 400,000 doses of the covid-19 vaccine donated for mass vaccination exercise in the Acholi sub-region of the country would be destroyed. Earlier in November, the government secured over 500,000 doses of Moderna vaccines with the aim of meeting its target of vaccinating 22 million Ugandans above age…
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Nigeria Flags-off Second Phase Vaccination Exercise
Nigeria has begun the second phase of its vaccination exercise against the Covid-19 virus. The exercise is coming at a time where the country has begun to record increasing cases of the virus in the last one month. Speaking at the flag-off ceremony held at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Jabi Abuja, the Secretary to…
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Nigeria Records Highest COVID Rate In Over A Year
Nigeria has recorded the highest number of infections in any single day since February 2020, according to the Nigerian Centre For Disease Control (NCDC). The new records stand at 1,149, pushing the cumulative number of Covid-19 infections to 184,593. The NCDC added that the new cases involve 393 persons in Lagos alone. Active cases in…
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Moderna Says Its Vaccine Booster Produces Immunity Against Delta
According to details of a study released on Thursday, August 5, Moderna has revealed its Covid-19 vaccine booster shot produced a “robust” antibody response against the highly contagious delta variant. In its phase two trial, Moderna tested a 50-microgram dose of three vaccine booster candidates in previously vaccinated individuals. The booster shots produced a promising…
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China To Ship 470,000 Doses Of Covid-19 Vaccine To Nigeria
Nigeria would receive 470,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines from the Chinese government, according to China’s Ambassador to Nigeria, CUI Jianchun. CUI Jianchun made the donation to the Nigerian Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, in Abuja, on Friday, July 23, 2021. According to the Ambassador, the gesture is a result of the good relationship between…
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Visualization Of The Global COVID-19 Vaccine Divide
So far, 23.7% of the world population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, while 3.13 billion doses have been administered globally. 40.07 million are given every day, according to Our World in Data, a non-profit online scientific publication based at the University of Oxford. More than 12 months after the World Health Organization declared the…
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Kenya Imposes New Covid-19 Lockdown Restrictions
Following a hike in infection rates, Kenya has imposed an indefinite lockdown as announced by the President on Friday, April 3, 2021. President Uhuru Kenyatta also announced a ban on all inland travel in the capital Nairobi and international travels to and from the UK and some other countries. Kenya’s Covid-19 positivity rate has jumped…
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UK Agency Fines Nigerian Pastor N65.6M Over Covid-19 Misinformation
The Office of Communications in the United Kingdom (OFCOM), has fined religious channel, Loveworld, owned by Nigerian Pastor, Chris Oyakhilome the sum of £125,000 (N65.6m) for sharing misleading information on COVID-19. The fine based on what was termed “a breach of the UK’s broadcasting code” was enforced on claims that the broadcasters had previously breached…
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Healthcare Crisis In Somalia Reaches Frightening Heights
Somalia’s healthcare system is currently struggling with the spike in daily new Covid-19 infections which some healthcare practitioners believe is due to the new coronavirus strain. The second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic is hitting the East African nation really hard according to new reports. Health workers at the Martini Hospital in Mogadishu, the capital’s…