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We’ll Work With NAFDAC To Make Remdesivir Available For COVID-19 Treatment –Ihekweazu

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says it will work with the National Agency for Food and Drug …

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Lagos Records 39 New COVID-19 Cases As Economy Re-Opens

Lagos State has recorded 39 fresh coronavirus infections, The NAN reports. This brings the total num…

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South Africa Starts Coronavirus Trial Of TB Vaccine

Hundreds of South African health workers were given a century-old tuberculosis vaccine on Monday in …

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Unilorin Set To Make COVID-19 Vaccine Research Breakthrough

The University of Ilorin (Unilorin) says it will soon produce a vaccine for Coronavirus (COVID-19). …

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Taraba Discharges 124 Persons From Quarantine

The Taraba Technical Committee on COVID-19 on Sunday discharged 124 persons quarantined at the state…

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Lalong Fumes Over Leaked COVID-19 Test Result From Lab

Plateau State Governor Simon Lalong is not pleased with the leakage of coronavirus disease (COVID-19…

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Apprehension As COVID-19 Patient Escapes From Taraba Isolation Centre

There is tension in Taraba State, as a female COVID-19 patient was said to have escaped from an isol…

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Group Berates NCDC Over Conduct Of Coronavirus Test In Cross River

The Society Committee Against COVID-19 (SOCOCOVID) has raised alarm over the alleged insistence of t…

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23 Nasarawa Assembly Members Quarantined As Member Dies

Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi has said the state  House of Assembly would be shut down following…

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Assault: CP Writes UUTH As Nurses, Midwives Demand Apology

The Akwa Ibom State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, has written to the University of Uyo Teac…

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NCDC Reviews Case Definition For COVID-19

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Sunday announced a review of the case definition for COVID…

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80% Of Kano Coronavirus Samples Positive – Buhari’s Panel

The Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals on Sunday called on the President, Major General M…

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Doctors Who Treated Lagos COVID-19 Victim Working Without Isolation

No fewer than 11 health workers, including four doctors and three nurses at the Randle General Hospi…

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Ogun Doctors Begin Three-Day Warning Strike

The Association of Resident Doctors at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Og…

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Pharmacies Hike Face Masks Prices In Rivers

Pharmacists in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, and its environs, have hiked the prices of f…

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Pharmacists Caution Residents As FG Relaxes Lockdown

The Association of Hospital and Administrative Pharmacists of Nigeria has called on Nigerians to tak…

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Nigeria Records 170 New COVID-19 Cases, Total Now 2,558

Nigeria has recorded 170 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of infections in the co…

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Borno State Shuts Out Media Over COVID-19, Records Two New Deaths

Borno State coronavirus disease (COVID-19) response team has shut the media out of the daily updates…

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Enugu State Records Four New COVID-19 Cases

Enugu State recorded four new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus at the weekend comprising two…

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Labour, NMA Vow To Resist Pay Cuts In Kogi

Against the backdrop of alleged move by the Kogi State government to cut workers’ salaries by half, …

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