Africa is being left behind, having received only 450million of the eight billion COVID vaccine doses distributed. Dr Richard Mihigo, Immunization and Vaccines Development Programme, Coordinator World Health Organisation’s Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO), made this known while speaking on “Vaccination in Africa: Research Capacity, Advocacy, Manufacturing and...
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About one million COVID-19 vaccines are estimated to have expired in Nigeria last month without being used, Reuters reported. According to two sources who spoke to Reuters, it was one of the biggest single losses of doses that shows the difficulty of African nations in getting shots. Governments on...
The World Health Organisation (WHO), has commended Nigeria for its huge investment in health security during the fight against COVID-19. The Emergency Preparedness and Response Cluster Lead of the WHO in Nigeria, Dr Rex Mpazanje, gave the commendation on Monday in Abuja, at a three-day Technical Meeting of the...
World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday urged countries not to panic but to prepare for the likely spread of COVID-19 Omicron variant as scientists continue to study it. Speaking in Geneva, WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier stressed that data suggesting that Omicron was highly transmissible was only preliminary. The UN...
The World Health Organization said Friday it had not seen any reports of deaths relating to the new Omicron variant of Covid-19. The WHO said it was collecting evidence about the variant of concern (VOC), as countries around the world scramble to stop it from spreading. But despite a...
The World Bank Group has called on the Federal Government to impose special taxes on alcohol, cigarettes and sugar-sweetened beverages to improve primary healthcare. “If we want to improve healthcare in Nigeria, we need to tax the things that are killing us. “The economic rationale for taxing these products...
African countries are stepping up measures to detect and control the spread of the Omicron variant. This became necessary as weekly new COVID-19 cases in the continent rose by 54 per cent due to an upsurge in southern Africa, said the World Health Organisation in a statement released on...
The Federal Government has insisted that the country is yet to record a case of the Omicron variant of the COVID-19, despite Canadian authorities’ claims that two passengers from Nigeria had tested positive. Speaking at the Presidential Steering Committee briefing in Abuja, Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease...
World Health Organisation (WHO) says it still ‘not clear’ whether Omicron COVID variant is more transmissible or more severe than Delta variant. WHO, in a statement on Sunday, said that its experts, researchers in South Africa and around the world are currently conducting studies to better understand Omicron. The...
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday called on countries to “immediately and urgently” reverse scientifically “unjustified” travel bans linked to the discovery of the new coronavirus variant Omicron. “We call upon all those countries that have imposed travel bans on our country and our southern African sister countries...
Renowned virologists in Nigeria have called on the Federal Government to be swift in its emergency response to the recently-discovered B.1.1.529 strain of COVID-19, first detected in South Africa. The virologists including the Chairman, Expert Review Committee on COVID-19, Prof Oyewale Tomori; ex-National Chairman of the Association of Public...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Over 400 students of the Cross River University (UNICROSS) have pledged to champion the COVID-19 vaccination sensitization in their campus, among their peers and across the state. The students made the pledge during a town hall meeting organized by the Cross River State Government through...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Federal Capital Territory Administration has flagged off mass vaccination campaign against the spread of COVID-19 pandemic, targeting over 1.5 million residents in the next 50 days across the six area councils. FCT Minister of State, Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, while performing the exercise...
The Jigawa Government in partnership with Malaria Consortium have begun the distribution of 3.7 million Insecticide Treated Nets to vulnerable households in the state. Gov. Muhammad Badaru, stated this during the inauguration of the 12-day distribution exercise on Wednesday, at Madobi village in Dutse Local Government Area of the...
World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday joined advocates around the world to commemorate a landmark Day of Action for Cervical Cancer Elimination and welcome groundbreaking new initiatives to end the disease. WHO Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, alongside celebrities, First Ladies, cancer survivors and health and community organisations, helped to raise...
Nigeria has introduced the use of test kits to stop mother-child HIV/syphilis transmission as the country plans to distribute four million test kits in 2022, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Monday. According to the UN health agency, dual test kits, which cost less than one dollar, are...
Almost two million cases of COVID-19 were reported in Europe last week, the most in a single week in that region since the pandemic started, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Almost 27,000 deaths were reported in the continent last week, more than half of all COVID-19 deaths...
First group of senegal medical experts expected to assist Sierra Leone in treating victims of last week’s horrific tanker explosion has arrived. Recall that the World Health Organization (WHO) evacuated a group of ten Senegalese doctors as part of the international Emergency Medical Teams (EMT) requested by the West...
The heads of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank Group, World Health Organization and World Trade Organization held on 9 November the 2nd High-Level Consultations with the CEOs of leading COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing companies. At the meeting, all participants agreed on the urgency of delivering more vaccine doses to...
Mrs Aisha Buhari, the wife of Nigerian President, and also Global Tuberculosis (TB) Ambassador, on Tuesday urged stakeholders to work together to eliminate the disease in the country. Mrs Buhari made the call at the 2021 National TB Conference on Tuesday in Abuja, FCT. The theme for this year...