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)

The World Health Organization has approved the emergency use of a Covid-19 jab made by Sinovac, paving the way for a second vaccine produced in China to be distributed among

Nigeria’s federal government has expressed hope that the country may receive more consignments of Covax-brokered Covid-19 vaccines between July and September. Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency

The UK has announced zero daily Covid deaths within 28 days of a positive test for the first time since the start of the pandemic. The latest figures also reported

Authorities in Vietnam have detected a new coronavirus variant that is a hybrid of strains found in India and the United Kingdom, an official said. Nguyen Thanh Long, the Vietnamese

President Muhammadu Buhari has taken the second dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at the State House, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the president’s personal physician,

Kenya’s health ministry has advised hospitals to stop giving first doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines. Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe says a shipment arriving on Friday from global-sharing scheme Covax

The Nigerian government has released a second batch of names of travellers who reportedly violated the protocol for international passengers. According to the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19 the