coronavirus in nigeria

Nigeria has continued to see lower figures of single-day COVID-19 cases as it reports another set of infections below 200 mark on Wednesday. A total of 187 cases were recorded on Wednesday, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said…

Nigeria on Monday recorded 238 new COVID-19 infections in 17 states as concerns about the safety of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine the country recently received deepens. The new daily figure is higher than the 120 cases reported a day…

Nigeria on Tuesday recorded 346 new coronavirus infections in 18 states, according health authorities. The new figure is slightly lower than the 371 new cases recorded in the previous 24-hour cycle. With the latest figure, the total…

Nigeria on Saturday reported 195 new cases of COVID-19, the lowest daily infections since December 2020 as the country commences vaccination for the viral disease. The new cases is the lowest reported since December 2, 2020, when there…

Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has revealed that the COVID-19 vaccination jab was pain-free. President Muhammadu Buhari and Osinbajo got the jab on live TV today, a day after the COVID-19 national vaccine programme started…

Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha says nobody is safe from COVID-19 infection until everyone is vaccinated. He made this known this on Friday during the formal rollout of COVID-19 vaccines at the National…

Federal Government has said states who have not met the criteria for vaccine safety will not be given any of the four million doses of AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccines that has arrived in the country. Dr. Faisal Shuaib, Executive…

Nigeria has on Tuesday morning, March 2 received first batch of Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. The shipment arrived at the cargo wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja at about 11:50am this morning. Read Also: …

Nigeria on Wednesday recorded 655 new COVID-19 cases, again reporting less than 700 daily cases in a trend that started last Friday. The new cases on Wednesday raises the total number of infections in the country to 153,842, according to…

Director-General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Chikwe Ihekwazu, has revealed that a new variant of COVID19 has been detected in Nigeria and 15 other countries. Iheakwazu while speaking at Monday’s weekly briefing of Presidential…

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Friday recorded 662 new coronavirus cases and 10 deaths from the virus. The new figure reported from 23 states raised the total infections in the country to 150,908 and also increased total…

More than 150,000 people have been infected with COVID-19 in Nigeria, about a year after the country recorded its first case in February, public health agency announced. According to Nigeria Centre for Disease Control’s Thursday’s data,…

Nigeria on Wednesday recorded 869 new COVID-19 cases in 24 states, according to an update by Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). The latest figure, which indicated a significant decrease from 1,368 new cases recorded on Tuesday,…

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Tuesday announced 1,368 new coronavirus cases in the country, with Anambra state having the highest number of cases. According to data published by NCDC, the Tuesday figure represented an…

Nigeria reported 24 COVID-19 deaths on Friday, the country’s second highest daily death toll since the first case of the virus was recorded last February. The latest figure which indicated a significant increase from the eight deaths…