Health

Indian police said Friday that around 2,000 people were injected with fake Covid-19 vaccines in Mumbai, and another 500 — some of them disabled — may have suffered the same fate in a second major […]

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said he was opposed to mandatory coronavirus vaccinations for Russians but urged the jab-sceptic population to get inoculated, as his country battles a deadly third wave. His comments came as […]

More than 10 million Australians have been ordered into lockdown as coronavirus cases spread across the country, and Brisbane on Tuesday became the fourth major city to issue stay-at-home orders. The three-day snap lockdown for […]

Australia’s largest city Sydney entered a two-week lockdown Saturday to contain a sudden coronavirus surge and Russia’s Saint Petersburg announced a record death toll, as several European nations lifted restrictions despite the spread of the […]

The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Mr Boss Mustapha, and other members of the PTF have received the AstraZeneca vaccines. They took the first jabs of the vaccine on Monday at the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has received the AstraZeneca vaccine, a day after the Federal Government launched the vaccination exercise in the country. He took the jab on Saturday at the new Banquet Hall of the Presidential […]

Nigeria has received its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines. The NAFDAC-approved Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, around noon on Tuesday, via an Emirates airline. Chairman of the Presidential Task Force […]

A woman who spent years hiding from people because she was self conscious about the size of her legs says she’s finally embracing them. Monique Samuels from Atlanta, USA, had these insecurities ever since she […]

The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), on Wednesday, reached an agreement with the Federal Government, over its ongoing strike. At a meeting which lasted almost the entire day, the association said it will consult […]

Long-dormant viruses brought back to life; the resurgence of deadly and disfiguring smallpox; a dengue or zika “season” in Europe. These could be disaster movie storylines, but they are also serious and increasingly plausible scenarios […]

Almost one million people have been infected with COVID-19 in Africa, according to data from the Africa Centre Control (CDC). The agency said as of Sunday, August 2, 2020, the 55-nation Africa Union (AU) has […]

Ekiti state governor, Kayode Fayemi has tested positive for COVID-19. The governor who confirmed his status on his Twitter handle said this was his third COVID-19 test. He said, “I took my third COVID-19 test […]

The total number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Nigeria is headed towards the 37,000 mark. This follows the confirmation of 556 new infections by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) – the health agency […]

Nigeria on Sunday reported five hundred and seventy-one (571) new cases of COVID-19 with three hundred and forty-three more recoveries.  This is according to the latest figures released on Sunday night in a tweet by […]