Russia on Friday lifted all of the remaining restrictions which were intended to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The consumer protection agency Rospotrebnadzor made the...
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) describes the COVID-19 pandemic as a defining global health crisis of our time and the greatest challenge faced since World...
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo has decried brain drain in Nigeria’s health sector, post-COVID-19. Obaseki stated this when he hosted members of the Association of Nigeria...
Shanghai on Wednesday made concessions on an unpopular COVID isolation policy that has separated children from their parents and sparked a public outcry. It also extended...
South Africa has suspended its COVID-19 containment plan 750 days after it was implemented. President Cyril Ramaphosa said the measure was due to a drop in...
The Bundesliga will this weekend see its biggest attendance since the start of the coronavirus pandemic two years ago. This will be much to the relief...
The 2022 Batch ‘A’, Stream ll Corps members in Bayelsa have been cautioned to adhere to preventive measures against COVID-19 pandemic. The Director-General of National Youth...
Rep. Tolulope Akande-Sadipe (APC- Oluyole), has facilitated COVID-19 relief funds for 150 constituents. This is contained in a statement signed by her Media Aide, Olamilekan Olusada,...
Friday’s Bundesliga match between Bochum and Borussia Mönchengladbach will take place without the teams’ head coaches because both have tested positive for the coronavirus. Bochum said...
World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned against relaxing COVID-19 protocol, noting that the pandemic is not over as cases are increasing globally. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom...
Ireland’s Prime Minister, Taoiseach Micheal Martin, has tested positive for COVID-19. It means the prime minister will be unable to meet U.S. President, Joe Biden, later...
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris tested negative for COVID-19 in spite of her husband’s infection with the virus, according to a spokesperson. Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff,...
Clinical trials at BioNTech for a coronavirus vaccine adapted to the Omicron variant is still going according to plan, the company said. However, it said it...
Vietnam is allowing foreign arrivals with proof of a negative COVID-19 test to travel freely in the country upon entry. International tourists are only required to...
More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the global infections and deaths have waxed and waned in different parts of the world. As the Omicron...
The number of COVID-19 infections reported weekly across the globe has increased for the first time since the end of January, the World Health Organisation said....
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed 4.7 million more people into extreme poverty in South-East Asia in 2021, reversing gains made in fighting poverty. The Asian Development...
Australia’s medical regulator the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) said on Thursday that it has provisionally approved the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for use in individuals aged six...
The Executive Secretary, Benue Primary Healthcare Board, Dr Bem Ageda says 98,271 people have been fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 pandemic in the state. Ageda, represented...
Nigeria on Wednesday reported 37 new COVID-19 infections, bringing the total cases to 253,875. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said the new cases were...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says it registered 58 additional lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in six states and the Federal Capital Territory on Tuesday....
The number of Coronavirus infections detected worldwide has risen to more than 400 million since the pandemic began, according to the latest data on Wednesday. The...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), said it registered 35 additional confirmed cases of COVID-19 in five states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported 65 additional confirmed cases of COVID-19 in six states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) for Wednesday....
COVID -19 infections and deaths in North America continue to rise, as hospitalisations increase throughout the whole continent, the head of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO)...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported 159 additional lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in eight states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The NCDC,...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has reported 250 additional lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in 12 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Tuesday...
World Health Organisation (WHO) Director General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, has expressed optimism that COVID-19 pandemic will end in 2022. Ghebreyesus said at a press briefing on Wednesday...
Nigeria recorded 1,356 COVID-19 infections in 11 states and the FCT on Friday. Friday’s new infections brought the country’s tally to 234,709. The country also recorded...
Nigeria recorded a 500 per cent increase in COVID-19 cases over the past two weeks across the country. This is contained in a statement issued and...
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says it registered additional 1,368 new COVID-19 infections on Monday, bringing the number of confirmed cases in the country to 225,255....
Nigeria recorded 730 new cases of COVID-19 in 10 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said 385 additional COVID-19 infections were recorded on Monday across 11 states of the federation and the Federal Capital...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Tuesday announced the discovery of three additional cases of the Omicron variant in the country. The agency had on...
The Lagos State government has issued directives to attendees of parties and other social events in the state to present their COVID-19 vaccination card before having...
The Federal Government has gotten tougher with implementing COVID-19 vaccination directives by extending it to visitors to of Ministries, departments and Agencies of the government in...
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has rejected visitation ban placed on Nigeria by Canada and UK over Omicron variant, describing it as precipitate, unfair and discriminatory....
The Federal Government on Sunday ruled out the possibility of restricting foreign travellers from visiting Nigeria despite travel bans on the country by Canada, the United...
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said barely three per cent of Nigeria’s population has been vaccinated against COVID-19 largely due to poor access...
The Minister of State for Health, Sen. Olorunnimbe Mamora, says the Presidential Task Force, which later metamorphosed into presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19, contributed to the...