Health

The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha on Saturday asked Nigerians to make themselves available for vaccination against the rampaging virus.…

After taking delivery of 3.92 million doses of Covishield vaccine from the Serum Institute of India (SII) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja on Tuesday,…

‎About four million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine arrived Nigeria on Tuesday. The vaccine was shipped to Nigeria through the COVAX Facility, a partnership between CEPI,…

‎Scientists in Italy claims their research shows that obese people - anyone with a BMI over 30 - may need bigger doses, or another top-up jab, to protect them against…

As the first batch of the nation’s vaccines arrive on Tuesday, the National Primary Health Care Development Agency has commenced online registration of Nigerians interested…

Edo State has, in the last 72 hours, recorded 23 new cases and four more deaths from coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of deaths recorded in the second wave…

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has sent aside $19 million to train 100,000 health workers in part of Nigeria. The training, which would be on for…

Ghana has become the first country to receive coronavirus vaccines through the Covax vaccine-sharing initiative. A delivery of 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine…

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says Nigeria now has 54 cases of the United Kingdom’s (UK) variant of the COVID-19 virus. The NCDC, Director General of Dr.…

UN chief Antonio Guterres on Monday criticised countries that are using the pandemic to justify cracking down on dissent, reining in the media and suppressing criticism.…