318 New Cases Of Coronavirus Recorded In Nigeria

Two persons, including an unvaccinated health worker, have died from complications of COVID-19 in Edo state. The 56-year-old health worker died at the Auchi General Hospital, Edo north.Disclosing this to newsmen on Friday, September 10, the Head of the State’s COVID-19 Case Management, Dr Ebomwonyi Osagie, said the two victims were yet to be vaccinated…

53 healthcare workers have contracted COVID-19 since the federal government declared a second wave of the pandemic in December 2020. Edo state’s COVID-19 Incident Manager, Dr. Andrew Obi said this during a meeting of the State Taskforce on COVID-19 chaired by Governor Godwin Obaseki. Obi cautioned residents to observe all precautionary measures to guard against…

Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, the Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has disclosed that the country is at low risk of having a Marburg virus outbreak. This is coming after report of Guinea being the first West African country to record a case of highly infectious disease that causes haemorrhagic fever and in…

As the deadline given by the federal government for its workers to get vaccinated gets closer, hundreds of civil servants are rushing to hospitals to get the vaccine. Recall that FG said its workers must get vaccinated before December 1 or be barred from offices. According to Daily Trust, this is in the wake of…