Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna are making combined profits of $65,000 every minute from their highly successful Covid-19 vaccines while the world’s poorest countries remain largely unvaccinated, according to a new analysis. The companies have sold the vast majority of their doses to rich countries, leaving low-income nations in the...
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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...
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Sokoto State has embarked on a three-day free medical outreach in some rural communities in the area. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the State Coordinator of NYSC, Alhaji Muhammadu Nakamba, inaugurated the Phase II 2021 Health Initiative for Rural...
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has said more than three million eligible Nigerians have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The Executive Director, NPHCDA, Dr Faisal Shuaib, said this at the bi-weekly briefing of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on Monday in Abuja. The News Agency of...
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...
Ravindra Gupta, a Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the University of Cambridge in U.K., has urged African countries to make a stronger voice against COVID-19 vaccine nationalism. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that vaccine nationalism happens when governments sign agreements with pharmaceutical manufacturers to supply their own...
Thousands of demonstrators marched on the New Zealand parliament to protest against Covid-19 restrictions Tuesday, prompting a major police deployment at the Wellington building known as the Beehive. About 3,000 people, most not wearing masks, made their way through the capital’s city centre, including dozens of motorcyclists in biker...
The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), has vaccinated 5,770,899 eligible persons with the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccination while 3,146,885 have taken the second dose (fully vaccinated). The Director, Planning Research and Statistics, NPHCDA, Dr. Abdullahi Bulama Garba, disclosed this on Monday in Abuja, at the Ministerial...
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...
A U.S. federal appeals court ruled Saturday to temporarily halt a mandate by President Joe Biden’s administration that required employees of large companies to get vaccinated or undergo frequent testing. According to the mandate, employees of companies with a workforce of 100 or more must be fully vaccinated by...
Nestlé Nigeria has introduced Nestlé Pure Life Sparkling Water, the first plain sparkling water sourced and produced locally in Nigeria. The sparkling water segment in Nigeria is a gap no local brand has been in a position to fill until now. Speaking at the launch event in Lagos, the...
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa reached 8,506,231 as of Thursday morning, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The Africa CDC, the specialized healthcare agency of the African Union (AU), said the death toll from the pandemic across the continent stands at...
Frank Ulrich Montgomery, the German doctor who chaired the World Medical Association, has called for the comprehensive use of Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine booster shots. “Everyone who was fully vaccinated six months ago should get a booster shot soon,’’ Montgomery told the newspapers of the Funke media group in remarks...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged global leaders to back the UN strategy to make vaccine equity a reality by accelerating efforts and ensuring maximum vigilance . defeat the Coronavirus (COVID-19). Guterres made the call in a statement just as the world passed yet another milestone of five million...
The global COVID-19 death toll reached the 5-million milestone on Monday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The United States remains the worst-hit country with about 46 million cases and about 746,000 deaths, accounting for more than 18 percent of the global caseload and nearly 15 percent of...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded an additional 89 new cases of COVID-19 in eight states and Federal Capital Territory (FCT), as the battle against the deadly disease continues. In an update via its website on Sunday morning, the NCDC said...