Nigeria reported its first set of confirmed cases of Omicron variant (B.1.1.529 SARS-CoV-2 lineage) on Wednesday… EKO HOT BLOG reports that Nigerian authorities have reviewed the country’s international travel protocol amid the emergence of a new variant of the COVID-19 virus – Omicron. Chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19 and Secretary to … Read more
The report dismissed suggestions that the coronavirus originated as a bioweapon… EKO HOT BLOG reports that the United States intelligence agencies, on Friday, said they may never be able to identify the origins of COVID-19, as they released a new, more detailed version of their review of whether the coronavirus came from animal-to-human transmission or … Read more
Genomic testing of the virus indicates it was not engineered in a lab but passed naturally from animals Covid-19 probably came to people through an animal, and likely started spreading no more than a month or two before it was noticed in December of 2019, a World Health Organization draft report finds. The least likely … Read more