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Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, has so far conducted about 1.54 million COVID-19 tests.

"We must not play politics with vaccines, we must not play politics with the health of our neighbours."

Over 155,000 COVID-19 cases have been reported in the country and over 1,900 deaths.

Data show the COVID-19 pandemic overall is on a downward trend in most countries on the continent.

Medical supplies worth over $18 million will be distributed to 15 West Africa countries including Nigeria.

According to the NCDC, 464 new COVID-19 cases were found in 22 states on Wednesday.

Democratic Republic of Congo and Guinea recently recorded fresh outbreak of the Ebola virus.

Nigeria took delivery of Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines on Tuesday

The delivery of the AstraZeneca vaccines is part of an overall 16 million doses planned to be delivered to Nigeria...

Nigeria is one of 92 countries that will receive the free Oxford/Astrazeneca vaccines through COVAX.

The total number of COVID-19 infections in the country is now 156,017, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control...

“Our goal is to introduce COVID-19 vaccine in a phased and equitable manner, based on advice of the WHO...," an...

Saturday marked exactly one year since medics were summoned to what became the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Nigeria.

Official data showed 20.09 million people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and almost 800,000 have received...

With COVID-19 dominating the news cycle, you would be forgiven for forgetting that other diseases still exist.

COVID-19 has infected over 110 million people globally with over two million deaths recorded.

“The authorization of this vaccine expands the availability of vaccines, the best medical prevention method for COVID-19."

The latest figure raised the COVID-19 infection toll to 155,417 in total.

Many persons have died of the disease since its new season began in January.

Nearly half of Nigeria’s COVID-19 infections were recorded this year with about 70,000 infections reported since January 1, 2021.

The WHO regional director, Matshidiso Moeti, said the vaccines will be rolled out to frontline health workers in the coming...

In the past one week, daily COVID-19 cases have fallen below 700.

"Over 13,000 health care workers have been trained at the national training of trainers in the first phase."

The 655 cases on Wednesday raises the total number of infections in the country to 153,842.