The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 550 new cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) the country. The NCDC disclosed this via its verified website on Tuesday. It said that the 550 new cases had taken the total number of infections in the country to 70,195. The agency disclosed that it recorded an additional COVID-19-related death to take the total number of fatalities in the country to 1,182. The new cases, it said, were...
Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State says the state government has received donation of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) worth N82 million from the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). Ganduje said this in a statement issued to newsmen on Tuesday in Kano by Hassan Musa-Fagge, the Chief Press Secretary to the state’s Deputy Governor. The governor, represented by his Deputy, Dr. Nasir Gawuna, received the donation after which he flagged off the PPE distribution to...
The total confirmed COVID-19 infections in the country jumped to 68,937 on Saturday as Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC ), reported 310 new Coronavirus (COVID-19 ) cases in 11 states and the Federal Capital Territory. The NCDC made this known via its verified website. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN), reports that the country has conducted about 791,539 tests since the first COVID-19 case was announced in February. According to it, the number of deaths...
Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 343 new infections of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in the country. The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Thursday. The agency also reported two additional COVID-19-related deaths, bringing the total number of fatalities in the country to 1,179. It said that the infections brought the total number of cases in the country to 68,303. The NCDC stated that a total of 64,291 patients were...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 281 new infections of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. The NCDC made this known via its verified Website on Tuesday. The agency said that the infections brought the total number of cases in Nigeria to 67,838. Of the new infections, data obtained from the agency’s website showed that Lagos State recorded the highest number of infections with 123, while the Federal Capital Territory, Kaduna and...
Pfizer and BioNTech on Wednesday became the first vaccine developers in the race to alleviate the COVID-19 pandemic to get regulatory approval after completing all stages of clinical testing. The companies a U.S. pharma giant and its once relatively unknown partner in the German city of Mainz announced that Britain’s regulatory authority for pharmaceuticals had issued emergency use approval for their vaccine. The go-ahead from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) paves the...
The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, has appointed a National Task Team on COVID-19 vaccine, tasked with the responsibility to acquire and deploy vaccines in the country. The information is in a statement signed by Dr Adebimpe Adebiyi, the Director of Hospital Services in the ministry on Tuesday in Abuja. She noted that members of health is the Chairman of the Task Team, while the minister of State for Health, Olorunimbe Mamora, will serve as Alternate Chairman....
Nigeria is one of the first countries to develop cheaper and faster COVID-19 test kits, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. Osinbajo said on Tuesday in Abuja that such test kits would enable testing to be carried out in places experiencing kit shortages. The vice president, who was represented by the Deputy Chief of Staff, Mr Adeola Ipaye, said this in Abuja at the opening ceremony of i-FAIR Israel-Nigeria 2020/21 Innovation Programme, scheduled to hold...
The number of confirmed Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in the African continent has reached 2,163,284 as of Monday afternoon, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The continental disease control and prevention agency said in a statement that the death toll related to the pandemic stood at 51,708. A total of 1,831,435 people infected with COVID-19 have recovered across the continent so far, according to the continental disease control and prevention agency....
Ahead of the Christmas celebration, the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has advised Nigerians to avoid non-essential travels, as a strategy to curb the spread of the pandemic. Dr Sani Aliyu, the Coordinator of the PTF, gave the advice while speaking at the daily briefing of the PTF on Monday in Abuja. The coordinator said that the Federal Government was discouraging Nigerians abroad to stop travelling arrangements for the period. Aliyu said that although everyone...
