The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 407 new COVID-19 infections from 16 states and the FCT as of Aug. 1, 2021. The NCDC announced the new statistics on its official website on Monday morning. The new infections indicate a decrease from the 497 cases announced a day earlier. The public health agency stated that the new figure…
Two humanitarian rescue ships have pulled 394 migrants from a dangerously overcrowded wooden boat in the Mediterranean in an operation lasting about six hours, Reuters news agency reported. The German and French NGO ships Sea-Watch 3 and Ocean Viking overnight on Sunday rescued the migrants in Tunisian waters 68km (42 miles) from the North African…
Brazil’s seven-day average of coronavirus-related deaths has dropped below 1,000 for the first time since January, when a brutal second wave of the pandemic was taking hold of the South American nation. The country has registered more than 19.8 million COVID-19 cases and more than 555,400 deaths since the crisis began, according to data from…
* 30 million cases reduced to zero Amid the sombreatmosphere over the global health space in the past 30 months due to the ongoing covid-19 pandemic, One news that has generated so much optimism recently is thof China’s certification as malaria-free by the World Health Organization. This certification came after 70 years of consistent efforts…
ABUJA, NIGERIA; JULY 31, 2021 – As part of its contribution toward helping to reduce the housing shortage in Nigeria, Stratech Properties Limited, a real estate brokerage company, has launched new home ownership products for doctors and other critical off-taker groups. In his address during the products launch which took place at the company’s stand…
A 64-year-old Internally Displaced Person, Mr. John Adamu, has cried out to governments at all levels and fellow Nigerians to come to his aid as he battles prostate cancer. Adamu, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria at the IDP Camp, Kuchigoro, in Abuja, said on Saturday that he was doing well in Gwoza, Borno…
Nigeria’s latest surge in coronavirus infections gathered pace on Wednesday with new confirmed cases rising above 500 for the first time in four months following the spread of the more contagious Delta variant. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) figures on Thursday morning, showed another 535 cases were reported on Wednesday. Newsmen report that…
The Africa Centre for Disease Control (Africa CDC) says the African continent was faced with syndemics, a combination of emerging infectious diseases, which are increasing the disease burden across the continent, according to John Nkengasong, Director, Africa CDC. Me Nkengasong stated this in Abuja on Wednesday, day two of the Nigerian Conference of Applied and…
he North East Development Commission (NEDC) has commenced free surgery for 100 women with Vesico Vaginal Fistula (VVF) in Borno. The Chairman of the commission, Retired Maj.-Gen. Paul Tarfa, said at the launch of the surgery in Maiduguri on Tuesday, that NEDC was concerned about the growing number of women with VVF. Also known as…
