Britain on Wednesday became the first nation to approve the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, as Germany logged its highest daily death toll with the pandemic surging worldwide. Fears have also grown following the detection in Britain of a new strain of the virus experts suspect is more contagious, and […]
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said January 2021 will be a tough month for Nigeria as the number of persons infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country is expected to rise. Chikwe Ihekweazu, Director-General of the NCDC, stated this at the press briefing of the Presidential Task on COVID-19 in […]
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The International Criminal Police Organisation, popularly known as Interpol, has traced a €500,000 COVID-19 fraud to Nigeria. The organisation made this known in a statement on its website titled, ‘Unmasked: International COVID-19 fraud exposed’. The alleged scheme was coordinated using compromised emails, advance-payment fraud, and money laundering. It stated that the fraud was uncovered by […]
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The federal government of Nigeria says Nigerians will receive the coronavirus vaccine by January 2021. Osagie Ehanire, minister of health, broke the news at the end of Wednesday’s federal executive council (FEC) meeting. He said a technical working group in the ministry is working on which vaccine will best suit Nigeria, considering that the country […]
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The Nigerian government through its Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has said that there will be no relaxing of the COVID-19 protocols ahead of the Christmas season. The coordinator of the PTF, Sani Aliyu, stated this on Thursday in Abuja at the daily briefing of the pandemic. Mr Aliyu said that Nigeria is currently […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed delight over the coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, stating that it must be equitably distributed. The vaccine according to preliminary analysis can prevent more than 90% of people from getting infected. While announcing the arrival of the vaccine, Albert Bourla, the chairman of Pfizer, said the company will […]
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The United States recorded its 10 millionth case of the coronavirus Monday, according to a count by Johns Hopkins University, the same day that Pfizer and BioNTech announced their vaccine showed 90 percent effectiveness. Shortly before 1400 GMT Monday the tracker by the Baltimore-based university showed 10,018,278 cases recorded in the United States since the […]
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U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has hailed Monday’s announcement of an effective COVID-19 vaccine by U.S. pharmaceutical giant, Pfizer Inc., and its German partner, BioNTech. The vaccine, according to the firms, has a 90-per-cent success rate having been tested on 43,500 people in six countries with no safety concerns. In a statement on Monday, Biden described […]
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Atletico Madrid coach, Diego Simeone has tested positive for COVID-19, the club announced on Saturday. 50-year-old Simeone, is isolated at home and has not presented symptoms. Atletico’s squad and staff returned early from a pre-season trip to Los Angeles de San Rafael just outside Madrid after a test on Thursday came back positive. Further tests […]
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 160 new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This was revealed in a tweet on Saturday night. Plateau and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) both topped the list of cases with 39 cases each while Ekiti, Edo, Abia, Bayelsa recorded the least number of cases […]
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