They tried grocery giveaways and lotteries for new cars and apartments. But an ambitious plan of vaccinating 30 million Russians by mid-June still has fallen short by a third. So

German Chancellor Angela Merkel received a Moderna coronavirus vaccine as her second jab, after getting the first dose of AstraZeneca vaccine, a government spokesman said on Tuesday. The 66-year-old took

Saudi Arabia has handed over 23 ventilators worth $1 million to the Nigerian government to combat Covid-19. This is the first batch as other equipment are still being expected from

A large number of poorer countries receiving Covid-19 vaccines through a global sharing scheme do not have enough doses to continue programmes, the World Health Organization has said. WHO senior

The African Development Bank (AfDB) says countries in the African continent are no longer on the back foot in the fight against Covid-19. According to the bank, early detection has

Brazil’s death toll from Covid-19 surpassed 500,000 on Saturday as experts warn that the world’s second-deadliest outbreak may worsen due to delayed vaccinations and the government’s refusal to back social

An Ebola outbreak which started in Guinea in February, infecting 16 people and killing 12, has been declared over, the West African country’s health ministry and the World Health Organization

President Joe Biden took a cautious victory lap Friday in his quest to bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control, announcing that 300 million vaccine shots have been administered in the

A senior Chinese epidemiologist said the United States should be the priority in the next phase of investigations into the origin of COVID-19 after a study showed the disease could

Public gatherings in Namibia will now be limited to ten people and should last no more than two hours if held indoors. This comes as per Tuesday’s decree in a

Nigeria is gearing up for the resumption of vaccination of people for COVID-19 as it expects another shipment of 3.92 million AstraZeneca vaccine to arrive in the country between July

Rwanda is experiencing a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases and deaths despite ongoing vaccination efforts days after President Paul Kagame warned there could be a “new lockdown”. The country’s health

Mozambique is on high alert as the country continues to witness an increase in the number of Covid-19 cases. The Southern Africa country’s health ministry says cases had gone down

About 100,000 bottles of codeine syrup with a total weight of 15,325kilograms were at the weekend intercepted and seized by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Onne

The US will buy 500 million more doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to share through the global COVAX alliance for donation to 92 lower income countries and the African

Government health officials on Monday approved the first new drug for Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 years, disregarding warnings from independent advisers that the much-debated treatment hasn’t been shown to

Millions of Covid vaccines could be wasted if rich countries send large amounts of leftover doses to poorer nations in one go, Unicef has warned. The charity said there needed

Senegal could begin producing COVID-19 vaccines next year under an agreement with Belgian biotech group Univercells aimed at boosting Africa’s drug-manufacturing ambitions, a source involved in funding the project told

Nigeria’s federal government Thursday explained that the production of the first local vaccine for Covid-19 is threatened by its inability to raise the $1.5 million cost of the clinical trial.

Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved the establishment of an oxygen production plant in each of the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)