Africa Steps up Omicron Variant Detection as COVID-19 Cases Rise in Southern Africa
African countries are stepping up measures to detect and control the spread of the Omicron variant as weekly new COVID-19…
Development Community Calls for Universal Vaccine Access to Mitigate Impact of Omicron, other Covid-19 Variants
Cabo Verde President José Maria Neves on Thursday joined the development community in calling for urgent universal vaccine access as…
Israel Says Pfizer’s COVID-19 Second Jab Effective Against Omicron
The Israeli Health Minister, Nitzan Horowitz has claimed that people who get a booster Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine or who had…
Omicron: Canada Adds Nigeria, Two Other Countries To Travel Ban List
Canada has added Nigeria, Malawi and Egypt to the list of African countries from which it is banning travellers amid…
BREAKING: NCDC Confirms Two Cases of Omicron Variant in Nigeria
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Wednesday morning confirmed the first case of the Omicron variant in the country.…
Omicron COVID Variant: FG Puts Nigerians, Residents On Alert
THE Federal Government has alerted Nigerians and residents alike to the new Omicron strain of COVID-19, describing it as a…
BREAKING: Canada Detects Two Cases of Omicron COVID-19 Variant from Travellers to Nigeria
Against the backdrop of federal government’s assurance that the newly discovered Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus is not in…
Omicron Covid-19 Not in Nigeria Yet; We’ve Ramped Up Surveillance — FG
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), says it is monitoring emerging evidence on Omicron variant and its implication, to…
Senate Rejects FGs Request to Borrow N82B for Mosquito Nets.
The Nigerian Senate has condemned a proposal by the Federal Ministry of Health to borrow $200 million (N82,070,388,916.76) under the…
AstraZeneca, RAEng partnership to boost African healthcare innovators
Global biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) have announced a new partnership to establish connections between…