The World Health Organization said Friday, December 3, it had not seen any reports of deaths caused by the new Omicron variant of Covid-19. The WHO said it was collecting evidence about the variant of concern (VOC), as countries around the world impose travel restrictions to halt its spread. But despite a growing number of countries…
First Reported Case In Arab World It has been reported that Saudi Arabia on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of the new coronavirus variant, Omicron. The announcement is the first to be reported in the Arab world. The case was detected in a Saudi man who returned from a North African nation. State news agency, SPA…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Wednesday morning confirmed the first case of the Omicron variant in the country. This was contained in a press release issued by the centre and signed by the Director-General, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa. The PUNCH reported that the Omicron variant, a new strain of the coronavirus disease, was reported…
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…
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has postponed the 2021 Africa Investment Forum until further. GIOTV reports that AfDB made the postponement over rising global travel restrictions due to the COVID-19 Omicron variant. The event was initially billed to hold between December 1 – 3, 2021, in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Solomon Mugera, AfDB’s director, communication…
A married couple who tested positive for COVID-19 has been arrested after fleeing a quarantined hotel in the Netherlands before attempting to leave the country. The pair were arrested on an aeroplane that was about to take off at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport on Sunday evening, according to Dutch police. Officers did not release the names…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made the revelation in an update about the new COVID-19 variant. The NCDC made this known to Nigerians in a statement on Sunday signed by its Director-General, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa. Adetifa stated that the variant was first discovered in South Africa and the exponential rise in COVID-19 cases…
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, has raised the alarm that the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic may likely happen in the state in December. Speaking at a press conference on Friday, December 20, Abayomi said passengers coming into the country from high-burden countries might increase the spread of the virus….
The first known case of COVID-19 was in a vendor at a live animal and seafood market in Wuhan, China, a new report claims. Dr. Michael Worobey, head of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona, says the World Health Organization (WHO) misconstrued the early timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Dr….
A woman who tested positive for HIV eight years ago has been cured. She was cured of the disease despite not taking any medication, doctors have revealed today. According to Dailymail, the unidentified 30-year-old, of Argentina, is only the second person ever recorded whose immune system has naturally rid their body of the virus. The…