The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that as more people continue to travel to wealthier nations in quest of better-paying professions, there is a critical shortage of health personnel in more than 55 countries. They continue to look for higher-paying jobs in developed countries that have increased efforts to hire them in light of the Read More…
COVID19
Nigeria yet to achieve 70% COVID-19 immunisation coverage, says NPHCDA
According to Dr. Faisal Shuaib, the Executive Secretary of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Nigeria has not yet achieved the year-end worldwide vaccination target of 70% target coverage with the COVID-19 vaccinations. Shuaib disclosed this in an interview with journalists on Tuesday in Abuja. “We are 21.6 million eligible persons away from Read More…
COVID-19 admissions have dropped to 0% in Lagos, death rate 0.7% – Abayomi
It is cheery news in Lagos as the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has reported that bed capacity utilisation in the state’s public and private COVID-19 care centres have dropped to zero per cent. Abayomi made this disclosure this through his Instagram account @profakinabayomi on Wednesday, while giving the state’s COVID-19 update Read More…
More Nigerians take up COVID shots after expired doses destroyed
Abubakar Yusuf, an informal Nigerian trader, said he was scared to get a COVID-19 shot after hearing the country had stocks of expired vaccines. That changed, however, when health authorities destroyed more than a million expired doses last month. Nigeria’s vaccine rollout has slowly gained pace since then as public confidence increases and the government Read More…
Lagos out of COVID-19 4th wave
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi has announced that the state is out of the fourth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. In a Channels TV interview on Friday, the commissioner revealed that COVID-19 increased late last year when a lot of people returned to Lagos for the holidays but currently, the figures Read More…
Dozens of firms to make cheap version of Merck COVID pill for poorer nations
Nearly 30 generic drugmakers in Asia, Africa and the Middle East will make cheap versions of Merck & Co’s (MRK.N) COVID-19 pill, under a landmark U.N.-backed deal to give poorer nations wider access to a drug seen as a weapon in fighting the pandemic. Merck’s early greenlight to the production of its anti-viral pill molnupiravir Read More…
Lagos administers 2.2m doses of COVID-19 vaccines
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, says 2,195,779 doses of COVID-19 vaccines had been administered in Lagos as at Jan.12. Abayomi disclosed this on Saturday through his official Twitter account @ProfAkinAbayomi while giving the state’s Vaccination Update. According to him, 1,026,144 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine were administered as the first dose, while Read More…
Common cold T-cells may protect against COVID-19 – study
An Imperial College London study published on Monday suggests that high levels of T-cells from common cold coronaviruses can provide protection against COVID-19. The study said that this could inform approaches for second-generation vaccines. Immunity against COVID-19 is a complex picture, and while there is evidence of waning antibody levels six months after vaccination, T-cells Read More…
Buhari reveals Nigeria developing COVID-19 vaccine
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed that Nigeria is working to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. He disclosed this in a televised interview on Thursday. “We are working very hard with the Ministry of Health to develop vaccines,” Buhari said in the interview broadcast on NTA. “We shouldn’t make noise about it until we succeed.” Nigeria, Read More…
African PR practitioners condemn travel ban on African countries
African public relations practitioners have lent their voices to the cry against the travel ban on African countries as a result of the onset of the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus. The PR practitioners under the aegis of the African Public Relations Association (APRA) aligned with the position of African Development Bank President, Dr. Read More…