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Getting COVID-19 Vaccine A Priority, Osinbajo Insists

One of Nigeria’s topmost priorities is getting the COVID-19 vaccine, a quest that is equally of utmo…

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NMA Seeks Assistance For Local Drug Manufacturers

Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has urged the federal government to expedite action towards givin…

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Medical Experts Warn Against Obesity, Others As Susceptible To COVID-19

Medical experts and members of the Nigeria Society of Physiotherapy (NSP) have warned against obesit…

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Benue Health Commissioner Dies After Surgery

The Benue State Commissioner for Health, Dr Emmanuel Ikwulono, is dead According to the Government H…

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160,000 Nigerian Children Die Of Pneumonia Yearly

This year’s World Pneumonia Day (WPD) is being celebrated today, November 12, 2020, with some gloomy…

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UNICEF, WHO Urge Action To Avert Measles, Polio Epidemics

The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have alerted count…

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Enugu Begins Mass Vaccination In Communities Against Yellow Fever

Enugu State government has commenced mass vaccination in Ette and Umuopu communities in Igbo-Eze Nor…

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Research: Reviving cells after a heart attack

Researchers unravel the healing mechanisms of extracellular vesicles and demonstrate their healing p…

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The six strains of SARS-CoV-2

SARS-CoV-2 mutation rate remains low. Across Europe and Italy, the most widespread is strain G, whil…

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Large, delayed outbreaks of endemic diseases possible following COVID-19 controls

Measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19 through non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as ma…

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The scientists who developed the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine are a Turkish-German power couple

Scientists Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci have dedicated their lives to the field of oncology and infec…

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NOA, NBTS Meet Monarchs, Religious Leaders On Blood Donations

The Director-General, National Orientation Agency, Dr. Garba Abari, has said the agency will partner…

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Provost Seeks End To Maternal, Newborn Mortality

The Provost, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Prof Olayinka Omigbodun, has said the govern…

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‘Health Workers Three Times At Risk Of Contracting COVID-19’

A lab technician sorts blood samples for a COVID-19 vaccination study at the Research Centers of Ame…

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Nigerians’ll Benefit from COVID-19 Vaccines – FG

The Federal Government has said Nigerians will be part of the early beneficiaries of COVID-19 vaccin…

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Imo Records 612 Cases, 12 Deaths From COVID-19

Imo State has recorded 12 deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic since the index case was confirmed in th…

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Two New Cases Of Covid-19 In The White House

Two more people close to US President Donald Trump tested positive for the coronavirus, media report…

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Kano Arrests 30 Herbal Medicine Hawkers For Use Of Vulgar Languages

Not fewer than 30 hawkers of herbal medicines were arrested by the Kano State government for using v…

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WHO Chief Says It Is Time For The World To Heal

The World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told the Membe…

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COVID-19: Nigeria May Wait Longer To Get Vaccine - PSN

Pfizer and BioNTech yesterday announced major breakthrough as the newly developed COVID-19 vaccine c…

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