Health

By John Ikani  The Omicron variant has been reported in 89 countries and the number of cases is doubling in 1.5 to 3 days in areas with community transmission, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on...

By John Ikani The World Health Organisation (WHO) has appointed Ayoade Alakija, a Nigerian doctor, as its Special Envoy for the access to COVID-19 tools accelerator (ACT-Accelerator). The ACT-accelerator partnership is a global initiative offering an...

By Emmanuel Nduka Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Nigeria, Cui Jianchun has revealed that plans are underway to set up vaccine production in Nigeria. Jianchun disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja at a...

By John Ikani The World Health Organization (WHO) says Africa is now officially in the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is partly due to the Omicron variant. WHO’s Regional Director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti...

By Emmanuel Nduka After reciprocal actions from the Nigerian Government and wide condemnation from other African leaders, the UK Government has confirmed that it is scrapping the red list for international travel. The directive will take...

By John Ikani The Omicron coronavirus variant is more transmissible than the Delta strain and reduces vaccine efficacy, but causes less severe symptoms according to early data, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday. Delta,...