As the world commemorates this year’s edition of the Global Handwashing Day, Nigeria’s Minister of Water Resources Engr. Suleiman Adamu has said handwashing with soap cuts deaths from diarrhoea by

The Chinese city of Qingdao is testing its entire population of nine million people for Covid-19 over a period of five days. The mass testing comes after the discovery of

Twitter on Sunday flagged a tweet by Donald Trump in which the US President claimed he was immune to the coronavirus, saying it violated the social media platform’s rules about

The virus responsible for Covid-19 can remain infectious on surfaces such as banknotes, phone screens and stainless steel for 28 days, researchers say. The findings from Australia’s national science agency

The number of coronavirus deaths in Brazil has surpassed 150,000, according to the country’s health ministry. The country also passed five million total infections earlier this week. It has the

Confirmed cases of coronavirus in Brazil have passed five million, with deaths in the country approaching 150,000, officials say. Brazil’s health ministry reported 31,553 new cases on Tuesday, bringing the

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday called on countries to resist “vaccine nationalism”, as the international community continues to seek a vaccine against COVID-19. WHO’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

China is in talks to have its locally-produced COVID-19 vaccines assessed by the World Health Organization, as a step toward making them available for international use, a WHO official said

Britain’s government has launched an investigation into why a technical issue with its test and trace programme had not been identified sooner, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said

The World Health Organization has said one in 10 people around the world may have contracted Covid-19, far more than the current tally of more than 35 million. Speaking to

Three scientists have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for discovering the Hepatitis C virus. Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice and British-born scientist Michael

Japanese designer Kenzo Takada, famous for creating the international luxury fashion house Kenzo, died on Sunday after contracting Covid-19. His family said in a statement that Takada died from complications from

Paris will shut all bars completely from Tuesday as the French government raises the city’s coronavirus alert to maximum following a sustained period of high infection rates. Full detail of

Martins Ifijeh The solicitor to HealthPlus, A. Muoka & Sons has warned that any attempt to remove the Chief Executive Officer of the Company, Mrs. Olubukunola George will amount to

In spite of reports suggesting Nigeria is already flattening the curve as regards the COVID-19 pandemic, the Director-General of the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, has

About 40 universities around the UK have had reports of coronavirus cases and thousands of students are self-isolating as the new term begins. The University of Aberystwyth is the latest

Time and time again, adequate sleep has been shown to be critical to daily functioning and long-term health. Sleep serves numerous roles: recovering energy for the brain, clearing waste products,

Kasim Sumaina in Abuja The Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola has said the solution to human illnesses lies in herbs which are available in Nigeria and Africa at large. This

Martins Ifijeh No fewer than 21 pharmacies, patent medicine shops and unlicensed premises at Alakuko, Ajegunle, Ologogoro, Ijaiye, Abule-Egba, Agbado and Agege in Alimosho, Ifako-Ijaiye and Agege local government areas

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has advised Nigeria not to go to sleep on the fact that poliomyelitis has been finally eradicated. Speaking at the presentation of the last infected