Health

Despite growing global concerns over possible side effects of Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, the Federal Government has insisted it is safe for use by Nigerians. National Incident Manager of PTF on COVID-19, Mukhtar Muhammad,…

Norway and Iceland have suspended the use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine as a precaution following Denmark’s decision to do so over concerns about patients developing post-jab blood clots. The development comes after Austria…

Russia has on Saturday said its scientists has detected first case of transmission of H5N8 strain of avian flu to humans and has alerted World Health Organization. The virus was found in seven employees at a poultry farm in southern…

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said Nigeria is at ‘moderate risk’ of experiencing an Ebola outbreak. The centre disclosed this in its health advisory released on Thursday following the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in…

A new study has indicated that breastfeeding women do not pass along SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) virus in their milk, but do transfer milk-borne antibodies that are able to neutralise the virus. The new development was discovered by…

Democratic Republic of the Congo has on Sunday announced a “resurgence” of Ebola in its troubled east after a woman died of the disease, just three months after authorities declared the end of the country’s previous outbreak. “We have…

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has approved the clinical trial of Ivermectin drug for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 infection in the state. Sanwo-Olu made this known in a statement, highlighting the update on the…

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has revealed that the demand for oxygen by coronavirus patients has increased to 400 cylinders per day. Sanwo-Olu made this known on Sunday in a statement while updating Lagosians on the…

Pfizer and BioNTech, makers of COVID-19 vaccine, has on Thursday said their product is effective against coronavirus variants that have emerged in Britain and South Africa. Several new variants — each with a cluster of genetic mutations…

Federal Government says it has released N10 billion to support domestic vaccines production to tackle COVID-19 pandemic in the country. Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, disclosed this during the Presidential Task Force COVID-19…

Bed occupancy in the public and private COVID-19 facilities in Lagos State has increased to 51 per cent of the capacity. This was revealed in a tweet on Friday by the Commissioner for Health in the state, Professor Akin Abayomi.…

German company BioNTech has on Friday said a not-yet peer reviewed study shows that its vaccine works against a key mutation in coronavirus variants uncovered in Britain and South Africa which experts have said is more contagious than…

World Health Organisation has said the overuse of antibiotics to treat the coronavirus — sometimes unnecessarily — has caused a sexually transmitted infection, Super Gonorrhoea to find a new way to thrive. Gonorrhea is a bacterial…

First study to ascertain the safety and effectiveness of a locally produced coronavirus vaccine in Iran began on Tuesday, state TV reported. Dozens of people are billed to receive the domestically developed shot in the hardest-hit…