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COVID-19 still circulating in Nigeria, Tomori warns

Foremost virologist, Prof. Oyewale Tomori, yesterday, warned that COVID-19 is still circulating in Nigeria, advising the authorities to urgently address the situation. He said an update from the United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that at least two cases of a new COVID-19 virus subvariant, BA.2.86, have been identified in the […]

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Efforts to restart local manufacture of vaccines suffer setbacks

Five years after, Nigeria’s quest to get its first set of locally manufactured vaccines is still a mirage.

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COVID-19: Not much to cheer two years after

Today, February 27, 2022, is exactly two years since the index case of the dreaded Coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19), was confirmed in the country. But two years after that incident, preliminary results of the seroprevalence study conducted nationwide by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control...

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Requiem for a dream

And the virologist wept. Prof. Oyewale Tomori is distinguished. He is a statesman, international public servant and an academic.

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How to contain Omicron, future COVID-19 variants of concern

It is feared that the new COVID-19 variant B.1.1.529 (Omicron) might have been circulating in Nigeria since last week as two passengers from here, on Sunday, November 28, tested positive to the virus on arrival in Ottawa, Canada.

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COVID-19 vaccine: Uncertainty over new supplies delays second jab


• Nigeria Records Zero Death One Month After Rollout
• Behind Target, Schedule, Says Tomori
• 8,439 Nigerians Exhibit Mild Side Effects
• WHO To Scale Up Pressure On Countries Hoarding Vaccine
• NPHCDA Reviews Eligibility Period
• Nothing Inappropriate With Two Months Gap, Says Guild Of Medical Directors 
More reasons have emerged why Nigeria cannot have enough COVID-19 vaccines to reach the proposed 70 per cent of its population by the end of next year.
Until now, The Guardian investigation revealed that the country has taken delivery of only 3.92 million doses of Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine and expended just over one million as first doses, while nobody has received the second booster dose, which is supposed to be administered within four weeks of the first.

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