Russia said Tuesday its Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine was 95 percent effective and would be cheaper and easier to store than some alternatives, as the global race heats up to develop a jab. The announcement was the latest in a flurry of breakthroughs as several vaccine makers worldwide published preliminary data showing efficacy rates of […]
Dr Godwin Oyiwona, Benue Supervisory Commissioner for Health has disclosed cases of Yellow Fever disease in three Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state. Oyiwona disclosed this at the flag-off of vaccination against yellow fever on Monday in Makurdi. Meanwhile, the disease which had killed about 20 people so far in Ogbadibo, has now spread […]
The University of Oxford and AstraZeneca say their COVID-19 vaccine gives 70 percent protection against the disease. Oxford’s announcement comes less than a month after Pfizer and BioNTech said that they had developed a vaccine that is 95 percent effective in preventing COVID-19. Unlike the Pfizer vaccine which needs to be stored at 70 degrees […]
Gareth Cave, a scientist in Nottingham, has invented a face mask that “kills more than 90% of flu and coronavirus”. Cave, a scientist and nanotechnology expert at Nottingham Trent University, said the new masks are due to go into production in Nottingham late November and he hopes they will be commercially available from December. According […]
The Enugu Commissioner for Health, Emmanuel Ikechukwu Obi on Thursday faulted the failure of communities to report irregular health symptoms as cases of strange illnesses in the state persists. “The issues of health-seeking behaviour are real,” he said while appearing on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily. “We have an emergency reporting network that has to deal […]
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Tuesday it had allocated 20.3 million dollars to help member countries access and distribute vaccines for coronavirus. “Asia and the Pacific have largely done well to limit the spread of COVID-19,” said Woochong Um, a Director for Sustainable Development at the Manila-based bank. “Ensuring access to safe, effective […]
A COVID-19 vaccine being developed by Moderna, a US company, has proved to be 95 percent effective against the infection. According to the BBC, early data from the company showed the efficacy of the experimental vaccine. This development comes a few days after Pfizer announced that a vaccine it is developing against COVID-19 is 90 […]
Enugu State Government has confirmed the spread of Yellow Fever in three Local Government Areas of the state. In a statement issued on Sunday night, the Commissioner of Health, Dr Emmanuel Obi, who listed the LGAs as Nsukka, Isi-Uzo and Igbo-Etiti, said the state government has received reports of strange deaths within the communities. The […]
Pneumonia is one of the leading causes of deaths in Nigeria with about 18 deaths every hour, according to a 2018 UNICEF survey. Over the years, the government and many development partners have made efforts to ensure the prevention and good management of pneumonia cases in the country However, while the global death rate has […]
A total of 76 deaths have been recorded from Yellow fever in three states. The cases were recorded between November 1 and November 11, 2020, in Delta, Enugu and Bauchi states. According to an update from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), 19 cases have been confirmed in the three states with 222 suspected […]
