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...
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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...