The Nigeria Centre for Disease and Prevention Control (NCDC) has raised alarm over 880 additional coronavirus infections reported in Nigeria from July 2 to 8, though with no fatalities. The NCDC disclosed this via its official website on Saturday afternoon, that the country’s commercial capital city, Lagos State, is...
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has issued a public health advisory on its website to members of the public to prevent further spread of the COVID-19 pandemic during the Eid-el-Kabir celebration. The Director-General, NCDC, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, issued the guidelines in view of the recent increase in...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has decried what it described as widespread misinformation about the infection, especially in Nigeria. The Director-General of the NCDC, Ifedayo Adetifa, said this on Tuesday at a virtual media dialogue on the infection. Adetifa, however, admitted that there was an uptick in...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said that as many as 141 suspected cases of monkeypox have been reported in-country, up from the previous 110 cases. The NCDC, via its verified website, disclosed this on Friday. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that when scientists investigate the...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has dismissed insinuation that Nigeria has laboratories where monkeypox virus is generated. The NCDC gave the clarifications via its official website on Tuesday, as the country continued to report sporadic cases of monkeypox since January 2022. According to the alleged report, the...
The United States has no connection with the recent outbreak of monkeypox in Nigeria, the American embassy in the country has said. It explained that the U.S. government has continued to support Nigerian health authorities with technical assistance and funding to tackle disease outbreaks such as COIVD-19 and monkeypox,...
By GRACE AUDU, Abuja – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has activated the national multi-sectoral and multi-disciplinary Lassa fever Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) in response to the Lassa fever outbreak in some parts of the country. Director-General of the NCDC, Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa, who made this known...
Nigeria recorded 222 new Lassa fever cases and two new deaths in one week across 15 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) . The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) disclosed this in its weekly situation report on Monday. According to the report, 69 persons are currently undergoing...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said it has sent letters to states to alert the authorities on the disturbing trend of Lassa fever outbreak in the country. In its latest situation report on the disease published recently, the agency revealed that a total of 102 infected people...
The presidency has announced that visitors to the presidential villa in Abuja would be required to take rapid COVID tests before they would be allowed to gain entrance. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu explained to Channels Television that the new development...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – All candidates, clients and other members of the public below the age of 18years are not required to produce any vaccination card before being allowed access to our facilities. In a statement by the board spokesman, Dr Fabian Benjamin, this category of persons are...
COVID-19 did not look kindly on Nigeria on Christmas Day as it hit 1,305 persons and took 21 lives. Sixteen of the lives lost were recorded in Imo. The 21 deaths recorded on Christmas Day increased Nigeria’s death toll to the virus to 3,014 from the 2,993 level of...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Sunday said it was monitoring emerging evidence on the new COVID-19 variant, Omicron, which was first recently identified in Southern Africa. The new variant “is considered highly transmissible” and has already triggered a new wave of travel restrictions targeted at countries in...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded one death and 86 new additional infections from across seven states on Sunday. This is according to the daily COVID-19 report released on NCDC website on Monday morning . According to NCDC, the 86 additional...