covid-19

Following two years of strong growth, at 6.1% in 2019 and 7.2% in 2018, The Gambia’s economy has been affected by the global COVID-19 pandemic and is expected to stagnate in 2020 due to trade disruption and the fall in tourism, according to…

The global collaboration for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, COVAX, has delivered more than 37,000 syringes to the Ministry of Health of The Gambia, through UNICEF. The first tranche of syringes was shipped from the Gavi-funded…

President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will on Saturday, be among the key national figures to receive the first jabs of Oxford Astra-Zeneca COVID- 19 vaccine scheduled to arrive Abuja Tuesday. The Executive Director…

Nigeria survey suggests 23% of Lagos residents had Covid last year. Study suggests infection rates have been much higher across the country than previously thought More than one in five people in the state of Lagos in Nigeria had…

The Federal Government has placed a travel restriction on 100 Nigerians from international trips for flouting COVID-19 guidelines. This was announced by the Presidential Task Force on…

A former House of Representatives member from Kano, Dr. Abdullahi Maikano Rabiu has dead of COVID-19. The veterinary doctor died at Kwanar Dawakin Isolation centre, in Kano. Alhaji Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, a close family friend,…

State House, Banjul, 28th January 2021: President Adama Barrow today received in audience the Chinese Ambassador, H.E Ma Jianchun along with a team of Chinese medical experts, who was accompanied to the Presidency by the Minister of Health…

Former Nigeria police chief, CP Yomi Onasile (Rtd), has been confirmed dead of Covid-19 complications. The late retired Commissioners of Police was gathered to have gave up the ghost at the Isolation Center at Olodo area of Ibadan, the…

Adejo Arome, vice-president of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), says a significant percentage of doctors at the pediatric department of the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo state, have contracted COVID-19.…