The Federal Government plans to issue a travel advisory within the next two days on inbound flights from India, Brazil and Turkey. This followed the escalation of new variants of COVID-19 virus in t ...

The Federal Government has resolved to introduce additional control measures to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 strain in India to Nigeria. The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, who disclosed thi ...

The Kano State Government on Thursday said 10 people had died and 400 others hospitalised after drinking a poisonous fruit juice. The state government had last month said the poisonous fruit juice cla ...

As part of steps to end the on-going strike that has paralysed many hospitals, the Federal Government has directed immediate payment of salary arrears of over 450 medical doctors. Those affected are m ...

China’s drug authority has approved for clinical trials an inhaled Covid-19 vaccine co-developed by domestic firm CanSino Biologics, the company said in a filing on Tuesday. The move comes after the N ...

"There will definitely be another surge at some point," says England's chief medical officer on the first anniversary of lockdown. The COVID crisis will cause a "long rain shadow" and there will "defi ...

Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, the Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, says the Astrazeneca vaccine recently inaugurated and distributed to states to treat C ...

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has deployed policemen to beef up security around the cold store where the COVID-19 vaccines are kept in the Ikeja area of the state. The state ...

THE Federal Government has confirmed that the movement of Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to  states has commenced on Monday while its delivery will be completed on Tuesday (today). The Executive ...