Several countries have already approved COVID-19 booster shots to increase immunity in people who have already been vaccinated… EKO HOT BLOG reports that a booster shot of the anti COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer/BioNTech is 95.6 per cent effective against symptomatic infection. This is according to trial data published by Pfizer’s manufacturers on Thursday. The … Read more
Some experts assert that this coincidental turn of events underscores the health sector brain drain from Africa. Two of Africa’s COVID experts are clearing out their desks and counting the hours as they prepare to take up new roles offered to them overseas. John Nkengasong, head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention … Read more
Aare Boluwatife Akin Olugbade, a business mogul, a philanthropist, has succumbed to the killer virus. He died today, 13th January, 2020, at one of the high-brow hospitals after battling with COVID -19 complications for over two weeks. A native of Owu kingdom in Ogun state, late Akin-Olugbade was described as one of the world’s biggest … Read more
A senior official of the United State (US) identified as Moncef Slaoui said the country is expected to approve the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 vaccine in April. Moncef Slaoui, the chief advisor to Operation Warp Speed who stated this added that the US trials and assessments would be complete for approval “sometime in early April.” “Several tens … Read more
India has become the world’s third country to pass four million coronavirus infections, setting a new record daily surge in cases on Saturday as the crisis shows no sign of peaking. The 86,432 new cases took India to 4,023,179 infections, third behind the United States which has more than 6.3 million, and just trailing Brazil … Read more
Federal Capital Territory has overtaken Lagos State in the numbers of active COVID-19 cases in which Lagos was formally identified as the epicentre of the outbreak in the country. The COVID-19 report by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control for August 2 showed that Lagos had 12,915 cases, while the FCT had 2,759. Read Also: … Read more
Nigeria appears to be making fiscal gains despite palpable global economic downturn and plunge in oil prices occassioned by the virulent COVID-19 pandemic. On Monday, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) disclosed that Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 1.87 per cent (year-on-year) in the first quarter of this year. The bureau made the … Read more
The Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Mathew Kukah, has given a 30-room hotel to the Sokoto State Government as an isolation centre for suspected coronavirus patients in the state. Announcing via Twitter on Monday afternoon, the Sokoto State Ministry of Health, said Kukah acted on behalf of the Catholic Diocese in the state. The ministry … Read more
The mere mention of the pandemic raging in the world called “coronavirus” evokes fear but this has not deterred a couple in India from naming their twin babies “Corona” and “Covid”. For the couple based in Raipur, in the state of Chhattisgarh, the two words may evoke fear and devastation to the world. But for … Read more