Tag: WHO
COVID-19: NPHCDA inspects 4m Moderna vaccines donated by U.S. govt, says vaccine awaits efficacy test evaluation by NAFDAC
Aug. 2, 2021 The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) on Monday inspected the four million and eighty (4,000,080) Moderna vaccines doses donated by the U.S. of America, to step up efforts to battle a third wave of infections. Speaking while inspecting the vaccines at the National Strategic Cold Store, the Executive Director, NPHCDA, ...China rejects WHO’s plan for 2nd study of COVID-19 origin
July 22, 2021 China rejected on Thursday a World Health Organization (WHO) plan for a second phase of an investigation into the origin of the coronavirus, which includes the hypothesis it could have escaped from a Chinese laboratory, a top health official said. The WHO this month proposed a second phase of studies into the ...SANWO-OLU FROWNS AT MISINFORMATION, CONSPIRACY THEORIES AGAINST COVID VACCINATION UPTAKE
July 16, 2021 Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said that persisting rumours and conspiracy theories about the COVID vaccine have affected the uptake of vaccination in Nigeria. Speaking at the South-West Edition of Town Hall Meeting on COVID vaccination in Nigeria, hosted by Lagos State Government and facilitated by the Presidential Steering ...COVID-19 deaths in Africa surge 43% week-on-week – WHO
July 16, 2021 Africa recorded a 43% jump in COVID-19 deaths last week as infections and hospital admissions have risen and countries face shortages of oxygen and intensive-care beds, the World Health Organization said on Thursday. The continent’s case fatality rate – the proportion of deaths among confirmed cases – stands at 2.6% against the ...COVID-19: FG disappointed experts on their predictions – Aregbesola
July 13, 2021 The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, said the Federal Government must have disappointed experts who predicted that Nigeria and other African countries would collapse under the damaging economic effects of COVID-19. The Director of Press, Ministry of Interior, Mrs Blessing Lere-Adams, made this known in a statement on Monday in Abuja. According ...COVID-19 Delta variant now present in 104 countries – WHO
July 13, 2021 The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the COVID-19 Delta variant was ripping around the world at a scorching pace, driving a new spike in cases and deaths from COVID-19. WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus said this at a media briefing on COVID-19 on Monday at WHO headquarters in Geneva. In ...COVID-19 3rd wave: WHO says worst yet to come for Africa
July 9, 2021 Africa has just lived through its most devastating week of the pandemic, but the worst is yet to come as the third wave gathers pace on the continent, the World Health Organization said Thursday. “Africa has just marked the continent’s most dire pandemic week ever. But the worst is yet to come ...COVID-19: WHO recommends an addition to drugs for severely ill patients
July 7, 2021 The World Health Organisation (WHO) has added interleukin-6 receptor blockers to its list of treatments for critically ill COVID-19 patients. This is contained in a statement on Wednesday. The world health body stated that the update was the findings from a prospective and a living network meta-analysis initiated by WHO, the largest ...First COVID-19 case could have emerged in China in Oct 2019 – study
June 25, 2021 The virus that causes COVID-19 could have started spreading in China as early as October 2019, two months before the first case was identified in the central city of Wuhan, a new study showed on Friday. Researchers from Britain’s University of Kent used methods from conservation science to estimate that SARS-CoV-2 first ...South Africa’s tech startup, Afrigen set to Deliver Africa’s First COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine
June 25, 2021 Afrigen Biologics expects a decision in mid-July on partners to produce Africa’s first COVID-19 vaccine using the mRNA platform, the South African start-up’s managing director said. The World Health Organization picked Afrigen for a pilot to give poor and middle-income countries the know-how and licenses to make COVID-19 vaccines, in what South ...
