The Lagos House of Assembly has sought for the upgrade of five general hospitals to tertiary health institutions in the five divisions of the state. The lawmakers made the resolution on Monday after d ...

With a resurgence of diphtheria disease in some parts of Nigeria, experts have raised concerns about the vaccination coverage and the waning immunity in adolescents and adults in the country. The expe ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has confirmed 29 new cases of COVID-19 in six States between January 7 and 13, 2023. This has brought the total number of laboratory-confir ...

China has stopped issuing short-term visas to individuals from South Korea and Japan in retaliation for Covid restrictions on Chinese travellers. Beijing says the pause on South Korean visas will rema ...

A medical doctor at the Garaku General Hospital in Kokona Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, Isaiah Ahmed, has died from Lassa fever. He first complained of fever but continued working, only to ...

Nigeria has recorded 13 new laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Lagos and Edo states, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC). The weekly epidemiological data f ...

The wave of Covid infections sweeping across China may already have peaked in some of the country’s largest cities, including Shanghai and Beijing, according to a new study. The study, published on De ...