Category: Update on coronavirus

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has registered 251 infections and five COVID-19 related death on Wednesday, bringing the country’s total number of infections toll to 208,404. The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Thursday morning. The 251 fresh cases reported on Wednesday indicate an increase from the 175 cases posted on Tuesday in the country. The agency said that the additional number of confirmed cases had increased the country’s infection toll to 208,404 while 196,123 people have been treated and discharged across the country. The public…

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The French government through the COVAX facility has donated 501,600 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines to Nigeria.  Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib, who received the vaccines at the National Strategic Cold Store in Abuja, observed that the donation of the vaccines to Nigeria demonstrates France’s faith in Nigeria’s potential to be a proactive and forward-thinking partner in the global fight to end the COVID-19 pandemic. He noted that Nigeria was one of the first African countries to get vaccines from the French government,…

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Nigeria is missing on the list of more than 50 countries the United Kingdom relaxed its COVID-19 vaccine policy for. Consequently, fully vaccinated Nigerians travelling to UK still need to self-isolate for at least 10 days before they can enter the country. Nigerian travellers had expressed displeasure over COVID-19 tests in the UK, despite being fully vaccinated. But the UK government had said Nigeria was on the ‘amber’ list, which had restrictions for travellers to the UK, irrespective of whether they had been vaccinated against COVID or not. From yesterday,…

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Federal Government in of Nigeria, yesterday, vowed to probe some airport officials who continue to extort inbound international travelers with a view to helping them evade quarantine in the wake of the resurgence of COVID-19. Secretary to the Government of the Federation SGF and Chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee PSC on COVID-19, Mr Boss Mustapha disclosed this during briefing of the committee. He said: “The PSC has taken note of the challenges raised by travelers that visit the National International Travel Portal in compliance with travel protocols. It has…

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513 new cases of COVID-19 has been announced by fourteen states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), on Tuesday, according to figures released on Wednesday morning by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control,(NCDC). The NCDC added that the 513 new cases, bring the total number of infections in the country to 202,704. The additional 513 COVID-19 infections, on Tuesday indicates an increase from the 393 cases reported on Monday. It added that lagos state led the chat with 132 news cases, higher than the 86 cases it recorded the previous…

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559 fresh cases of COVID-19 has been reported with five deaths in Nigeria on Thursday. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made this known in its infections update published on its Facebook page on Friday. The additional 727 COVID-19 infections, on Thursday, indicated an increase over the 559 cases reported on Wednesday and was attributed to the third wave surge caused by the highly transmissible Delta variant and low vaccination rates across the country. The NCDC noted that Nigeria’s COVID-19 cases had jumped to 197, 773 on Thursday. To…

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The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control has recorded 444 new infections from 20 states and the Federal Capital Territory, with seven more COVID-19-related deaths. The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Saturday morning. The 444 fresh cases reported on Friday, indicate a decline from the 631 cases posted on Thursday. According to it, the country’s death toll from the virus has risen to 2,494 . It said that the new infection figure had increased the country’s infection toll to 194,088 cases. The NCDC said that the number…

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Nigeria recorded 626 new cases of COVID-19 with 14 casualties on Tuesday, Aug. 31, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. The public health agency, on its official website on Wednesday morning, said that the surge in infections was driven by the third wave of the pandemic. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the agency had announced 460 new infections on Monday, Aug. 30. It gave the total number of deaths from the pandemic as 2,469, with the total haul of active cases rising from 10,858 reported on…

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The Federal Government, on Tuesday, hinted that it might sanction anybody who refused to take COVID-19 vaccines after they had been made available to all Nigerians. The Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Faisal Shuaib, gave the hint of possible sanctions at a press briefing in Abuja. This was as a Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Tuesday, barred the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, from enforcing compulsory COVID-19 vaccination in the state. Obaseki had last week said any resident of the state,…

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