Nigeria, like many other countries of the world, is experiencing the second wave of Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. More and more people are getting infected by the day as the daily reports by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) show. As at 2.41pm yesterday, the NCDC Coronavirus Microsite showed that Nigeria recorded 1,964 new cases last Thursday, which brought the total number of confirmed cases to 116,655 out of which 21,544 were still active. The website also indicated that the virus has killed 1,485 people in the country so far while there have been 93,626 recoveries.
The surge in the number of confirmed cases has put government hospitals approved to treat COVID-19 patients and isolation centres under pressure. Such facilities are reportedly overwhelmed presently amid paucity of some essential medical equipment like oxygen. Just last Thursday, the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, announced that President Muhammadu Buhari has approved N6.45 billion for the setting u
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India s Sanjeevani COVID vaccine supply reaches Brazil, 7 countries in neighbourhood
Other than Brazil, Morocco got its contracted commercial supplies on Friday, becoming the first country to get the supplies. Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth and Indian envoy to the country Nandini Singla. (Image: MEA)
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Updated: Jan 23, 2021, 06:52 PM IST
20 lakh contracted doses of India-made COVID vaccines reached Brazil from India in the wee hours of Saturday morning even as the Brazilian President Jair M Bolsonaro thanked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a tweet depicting Hanuman Ji with the Sanjeevani herb. Sanjeevani, mentioned in Ramayana is a magical herb which Hanuman ji brought by lifting an entire mountain.
New Delhi [India], January 22 (ANI): Various Urdu newspapers in their Friday editions have given prominent display to the US President Joe Biden's ending of the Muslim travel ban imposed by the previous regime. The news of protesting farmers unions rejecting Centre's offer to keep the farm laws on hold for 18 months has also been covered on page one of most publications.
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