The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), on Sunday, confirmed that 22 out of 86 patients currently receiving treatment at various Isolation centres within the territory were in critical condition and currently surviving through oxygen at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada. FCT Permanent Secretary, Adesola Olusade who toured the centres, however, said apart from […]
. Despite Nigerian authorities’ claims of expecting to receive in January one of the vaccines developed globally for COVID-19, evidence on the ground at the country’s National Strategic Cold Store suggest an exaggeration of the claims. Osagie Ehanire, Nigeria’s Health Minister, while responding to questions from journalists after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting in […]
Scientists in the United Kingdom have begun trials of an antibody drug combination that could prevent people who have been exposed to COVID-19 from developing complications. The antibody therapy is expected to confer instant immunity against COVID-19 and could be given as an emergency treatment to patients, care home residents, and university students to help […]
Bill Gates, a co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), says the world still does not have enough data to understand why COVID-19 numbers have not been as high as predicted in Africa. The American philanthropist who invests heavily in healthcare in Africa said he is, however, happy to have been wrong about […]
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control is expected to give emergency approval for COVID -19 vaccines once they arrive in Nigeria , Saturday PUNCH has learnt . The Director -General of NAFDAC, Prof Moji Adeyeye , said this during an interview with Saturday PUNCH on Friday. Adeyeye said NAFDAC would be […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Enugu has granted a perpetual injunction stopping the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, from collecting dues, levies from one of its members, Dr. Awkadigwe Fredrick Ikenna. The court also restrained the association from “continued placing of the building levy, on the online of or offline platforms of Awkadigwe and ordered […]
A poll conducted by Daily Trust via Twitter has shown that many Nigerians are still not aware of available testing centres for COVID-19 neither have they been tested. Nigeria, like other countries around the world, is also impacted by the second wave of the coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases peaked recently. As at […]
The National Coordinator of Presidential Taskforce (PTF) on COVID-19 Sani Aliyu says the COVID-19 vaccine will be administered to Nigerians free when vaccination begins. Aliyu made this known on Wednesday during an interview on Channels Television’s breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily. He also revealed plans by the Nigerian government on delivering and administering the vaccine and […]
The new variant of the coronavirus currently causing panic and concern in the United Kingdom and the European Union has been identified in Nigeria by scientists at the Africa Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID), at the Redeemers University in Ede, Osun State, Premium times reports. The new variant, detected in the […]
….Targets 40 per cent population reach in 2021 The Federal Government is painstakingly exploring multiple sources and cheaper but effective COVID-19 vaccines. Chairman, Technical Working Group for the therapy, Dr. Bassey Okposen, who dropped the hint in an exclusive interview with The Guardian in Abuja, said besides the COVAX facility spearheaded by Global Alliance for […]
