Corona Virus

l The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says one person has been discharged on Sunday after recovering from COVID-19, bringing the total number of discharged cases to 156,558.The NCDC confirmed the new recovery in its latest update,…

A Michigan father of five died from complications due to COVID-19 earlier this month, just weeks after making the decision with his wife not to receive the vaccine.Antwone Rivers, 39, and his wife Hollie contracted COVID-19 in mid-April.…

IT all seems like memories from a distant past. But it’s not. This time last year we were in a lockdown. The world was under the monstrous grip of the coronavirus. Rumours and speculations about the origin and nature of this invincible foe…

The federal government has again declared 132 Nigerians as “persons of interest” for violating the COVID-19 travel protocol by evading the mandatory 7-day quarantine for persons arriving from restricted countries.The Presidential Steering …

Senate President Ahmad Lawan says the National Assembly will continue to review of all COVID-19 emergency measures.This he said was to determine the effectiveness and prepare the government for future emergencies and would include all…

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila on Wednesday said the outbreak of  COVID-19 pandemic has thrown up a challenge for Nigeria to be proactive in its social, health and economic affairs.He said it has become…

India’s COVID-19 tally on Wednesday crossed 27 million, reaching 27,157,795 with 208,921 new confirmed cases recorded in the past 24 hours, said the federal health ministry.An additional 4,157 deaths from the coronavirus epidemic were…

To mark this year’s World Hearing Health Month, International Hearing Centre, IHC, Nigeria has begun free hearing health checks across its five centres in the country even as it stated that COVID-19 has isolated many with hearing…

ABUJA–THE federal government has disclosed that a total of 1,929,237 Nigerians representing 96 percent have so far been administered the first COVID-19 vaccine doses.The government also said steps had been taken to protect Nigerians against…

Irked by the series of criticisms and negative attention over the handling of the COVID-19 outbreak, the Indian government has banned the use of the terminology “Indian variant of COVID-19” and  instructed the removal of such content from…