Health

Vaccines can take years to develop and test but many countries have accelerated efforts in a bid to slow the coronavirus pandemic.

But while figures of fatalities are piling in the homeland thus far, there is no official count of Nigerians in foreign countries dying of COVID-19 complications.

SMC is designed to prevent and protect children against malaria.

One contentious issue that generated heated debate and pitched government officials and health experts against each other is the use of body disinfectants.

Health experts believe official data almost certainly under-reports both infections and deaths, particularly in countries with limited testing capacity.

Nigeria has recorded over 46,000 cases of covid-19 and 942 as the pandemic has infected over 19 million people and caused at least 728,453 deaths globally as of last week.

Violent clashes were reported on Thursday at the chairmanship election of the Enugu chapter of the NMA.

The vaccine was initially tested on volunteers from the Russian state’s Gamaleya Research Institute for Epidemiology and Microbiology, and then soldiers from the Russian military.

Over 21, 000 have also died from COVID-19, according to data from the African Center for Disease Control.

The government says it will start the payment with six hospitals, while expecting more funds.

Misinformation about COVID-19 has now joined the mix of factors impeding exclusive breastfeeding.

Mr Ujah, a former director-general of the Nigerian Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), polled 347 votes to beat his closest rival, Oguzie ‘Jerry-the-First’, who got 19 votes.

The ambulance is expected to aid the pickup and protection of patients who have tested positive to the virus.

The official explained that although a few samples tested had contained the virus, “when they followed up to see whether the virus was actually viable and could be infective, they could not find any actual infective virus”.

Besides hydroxychloroquine, the prices of other drugs used in COVID-19 treatment were hiked at the margins between 66 per cent and 89 per cent, the government said.

According to him, the elected officers of the NMA have admirable profiles that will take the organisation to greater heights.

The research conducted by scientists from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University College London stated that to keep the virus under control, at least 75 per cent of people with symptoms must be found and 68 per cent of their contacts traced.

Mr Ihekweazu said that the centre was working with the global community to ensure this access.

“If you have 101 patients being told at the hospital that they have the fever, I tell you there is zero patient suffering from Typhoid out of the 101 patients.”

The SGF said that the donation followed a request by the government of Sao Tome, seeking aid to help the country effectively manage the pandemic which is ravaging the world.

There has been a troubling uptick in mystery cases which health experts believe could upset plans of full opening of public activities across the country.

The pharmaceutical premises, comprising 740 medicines stores and 68 pharmacies, were sealed in July.