COVID-19: We Won’t Force Anybody To Take Vaccine — Minister
The Minister of State for Health, Olorunnimbe Mamora, has said COVID-19 vaccination will not be mandatory in Nigeria, adding that nobody will be forced to take any vaccine. Nigeria on Tuesday received nearly four million doses of COVID-19 vaccines shipped via the COVAX Facility, a partnership between CEPI, Gavi, UNICEF, and WHO. Appearing on Arise News to answer questions on the...
Lagos Government Seals 11 Event Centers, Nightclubs For Violating COVID-19 Protocols
11 facilities including Event Centers, Lounges and Night Clubs have been sealed by the Lagos state government after they were found guilty of violating the COVID-19 protocols in the state. The Director-General of the Lagos State Safety Commission (LSC), Lanre Mojola confirmed the development to journalists. Mojola said though the affected event centers originally informed the agency of their intention to...
Anti-Vaccine Politician Dies Of COVID-19
A Brazilian politician who introduced a bill prohibiting compulsory Covid-19 vaccines has died from coronavirus. Legislator Silvio Antonio Favero, 54, passed away at a private hospital in the city of Cuiaba, Brazil, on Saturday. Favero, a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Mato Grosso do Sul for the Social Liberal Party (PSL), had been hospitalised since March 4 and intubated in the hospital's intensive...
No Fake COVID-19 Vaccines In Nigeria – FG
The Federal Government has dispelled the possibility of any fake COVID-19 vaccines being administered or sold by unauthorised institutions in the country. This is contained in a circular by Dr Adebimpe Adebiyi, the Director, Department of Hospital Service, Federal Ministry of Health, on behalf of the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire in Abuja. The circular followed a letter from the...
COVID-19: Russia Records Highest Daily Death Toll
Russia on Tuesday recorded its highest daily death toll since the outbreak of the pandemic as the country grapples with a spike in infections spurred by the highly contagious Delta variant. An official government tally reported 652 coronavirus fatalities over the past 24 hours, topping a record that was set in December last year. A record-high number of daily deaths —...
Sanitizers With Methanol Can Blind, Kill – NAFDAC Warns
As Nigeria battles the third wave of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned Nigerians against the use of certain hand sanitizers. The warning is contained in a public alert titled “Recall of Hand Sanitizers by DiBAR Nutritional due to the presence of Methanol”. NAFDAC Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye said the agency received information from the US Food and Drug Agency (FDA) about the presence of methanol in some sanitizers. FDA noted that Nutritional...
COVID-19 Third Wave: FG Shuts Down Parks In Abuja
The Federal Government has shut down various parks in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, as the country battles a second wave. Ikharo Attah, the Head, Media and Publicity of FCT Ministerial Committee on COVID-19 Enforcement, made this known in a statement on Wednesday, NAN reports. Mr Attah said the administration would not lose its guard on the control of the...
Abia Emerges Best In Implementation Of COVID-19 Vaccination In South East
Abia State has been rated the best in entire Southeast Nigeria in the implementation of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19. This was made known by the Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib during the Covid-19 rollout vaccination review meeting held on Friday, July 16 at the NCDC Emergency Operation...
Nigeria Is Currently Witnessing 3rd Wave Of COVID-19 – Osagie Ehanire
Nigeria is currently witnessing a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Minister of Health Ehanire Osagie. Osagie, who made the announcement at the presidential steering committee’s COVID-19 press conference on Monday, August 1, urged for state engagement in sample collecting, reporting, and case treatment. Only 17 states, he claims, submitted data or samples in the previous cycle. READ ALSO: I...
Fear As 35 NYSC Members Test Positive For COVID-19 In Ogun
About 35 youth corpers have tested positive for the deadly COVID-19 virus in an NYSC camp in Sagamu, Ogun state. The State Commissioner for Health, Dr Tomi Coker, disclosed this on Thursday during a briefing on the upsurge of the third wave of COVID-19. IT can be recalled that over 109 prospective corps members have been diagnosed with the virus in...
