Coronavirus

“The increasing deaths from COVID-19 are warnings that health workers and health systems in many countries are dangerously overstressed."

About 1,131 new COVID-19 infections were also detected on Wednesday bringing the total number of known cases in the country...

Of the over 141,000 COVID-19 cases, a total of 115,755 patients have recovered across the country.

”The NCDC report created an impression that the state was now the most severely affected state in the country. This...

The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) says test results from Mrs El-Zakzaky and her husband returned negative

Monday’s 643 new COVID-19 cases raised the total number of infections in the country to 140,391.

Mr Ihekweazu noted that COVID-19 test samples were collected by the centre but there was no evidence that the tests...

NCDC says it will now provide the COVID-19 sample testing data weekly

South Africa said preliminary investigations showed the vaccines did not protect volunteers from the more contagious variant of the disease.

While the new COVID-19 cases reduced, the death toll from the virus remained relatively high with 20 deaths recorded Sunday.

Lagos was top of the list with 535 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday.

Nigeria had said it would receive about 100,000 of the vaccines before the end of February.

The 1,624 new COVID-19 cases were reported from 23 states.

The previous high of 4,466 deaths was recorded on January 12.

On Thursday, Nigeria also reported 1,340 new COVID-19 infections in 22 states.

Lagos is the only state in Nigeria with a higher number of COVID-19 deaths than Edo.

The Director, Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), John Nkengasong, discusses Africa’s COVID-19 journey, challenges and prospects.

Five people died from COVID-19 on Wednesday, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced Wednesday night.

Also, at least six people died from COVID-19 on Tuesday in Nigeria.

The PTF had labelled Kogi a high-risk state for refusing to test or treat people for Covid-19

Governor Zulum says commissioner was sacked as part of efforts to reposition Borno health sector

An official also says Kogi State has been declared a high-risk state for refusing to acknowledge the existence of COVID-19.

The latest death toll, which indicates a sharp rise from the eight deaths reported on Sunday, raises the fatalities in...

The U.K. has recorded almost 4 million cases of COVID-19, with over 100,000 deaths.

“If they insist on having these additional tests being done, then PTF has decided that their operations will be suspended...