US grants full safety approval to Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given full safety approval to Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine in a landmark decision that will allow leading US employers and universities to mandate jabs. The FDA’s decision brings about the first US government licence of a…
The Ebonyi Government has taken delivery of 46,088 doses of Moderna and 10,616 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines. The Commissioner for Health, Dr Daniel Umezurike, made this known on Monday when the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency took delivery of the vaccines in Abakaliki. Umezurike, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry,…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) recorded 1,064 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday as the deadly scourge continued its renewed surge in the populous African nation. The public health centre, in its verified website monitored on Sunday, said that 13 deaths were recorded on the date under review. It attributed the recent surge…
Girls Act, Abuja Chapter of the AIDs HealthCare Foundation, on Saturday called on government and stakeholders to invest more on youths and adolescent health needs in the country. Miss Patience Asher, Coordinator Girls Act, Abuja Chapter, made the call at the side-line of the First African and Second Nigerian Conference on Adolescent and Youth Health…
UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, on Friday paid tribute to the victims and survivors of terrorism from New York to Baghdad to the frontlines of conflict in Africa’s Sahel region. Associate spokeswoman for Secretary-General, Eri Kaneko, said this while briefing correspondents at the UN headquarters in New York. According to her, the secretary-general spoke at the…
Nurses have urged the Federal Government to, as a matter of urgency, improve the welfare and working conditions of health workers in the country for improved services. They made the call on the heels of the ongoing strike by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) which has crippled healthcare delivery and access in public…
By Ruth Ihuwe In recent times, its more convincing to proclaim that Nigeria, as a country is tethered to the nausea of bad news. But last week, a cheering news broke out. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced the ranking of Nigeria’s COVID-19 response as the fourth-best in the world. The pleasant news was conveyed…
The Planned Parenthood Federation of Nigeria (PPFN) says it has trained 700 health and social workers on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) mitigation and reproductive health services for rural communities across seven states. Dr Abubakar Okai, the PPFN Acting Executive Director, said this at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Civil Society Organisation Engagement (CSOE) COVID-19 stakeholders’…
The efficacy of two widely used coronavirus vaccines against the Delta variant weakens within three months of inoculation, but the jabs remain the most effective way to ensure protection against the strain, Oxford University researchers have found. Two doses of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines provide protection levels of up to 75 and 61 percent…
