Nigeria on Thursday logged 1,139 additional COVID-19 infections as total jumped to 241,513 confirmed cases in the 36 states and the FCT. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on Friday morning, via its website, said that the new cases…
ACOVID “tsunami” threatens to overwhelm healthcare systems, the WHO said Wednesday, as record surges fuelled by the Omicron variant dampened New Year celebrations around the world once again. Governments are walking a tightrope between anti-virus restrictions and the need to…
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency, (NPHCDA) on Wednesday released its COVID-19 vaccination campaign statistics on the most and least vaccinated states in the country. According to the health agency’s latest update, Nasarawa made the most of the vaccination…
Israel received Thursday the first shipment of Pfizer’s anti-Covid pill, with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett hailing it as critical amid a surge of cases driven by the highly infectious Omicron variant. “Thanks to our rapid action, the drugs have arrived…
The World Health Organization (WHO) is hoping that the COVID-19 pandemic will end in 2022. Director General, Tedros Ghebreyesus expressed optimism at a press briefing on Wednesday. Coronavirus emerged in December 2019 and has since claimed many lives across the…
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it is working on reducing importation of drugs from its present 70 per cent to 30 per cent by 2025. NAFDAC Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, said on Wednesday…
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has again warned Nigerians against patronising hawkers of herbal concoctions because the medicines lacked storage standards. The Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, gave the warning during an interview…
Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), says the agency is working with international partners to ensure Nigeria gets vaccines with long expiration date. Adeyeye spoke against the backdrop of the one…
The return of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) personnel to the ports in 2018 has helped in reducing importation of fake and substandard products into the country. Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, NAFDAC Director-General, said this during…
Bauchi and Ebonyi States have recorded new deaths from Lassa fever as the nation’s toll from the disease since the beginning of 2021 rises to 92. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) disclosed this in its latest situation report…
