The Nigeria Centre for Diseases Control (NCDC) has registered 186 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) infections from three states.

Several residents in Enugu, Rivers and Kaduna states were recipients of free malaria, eye treatment and some other healthcare services offered by the Nigerian Army to mark the Nigerian Army Day Celebration (NADCEL) 2021.

Six states reported 1,786 suspected cases of cholera between June 20 and June 26, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), said in Abuja on Saturday.

A coalition of Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs),has urged the Federal Government to declare a State of Emergency on primary healthcare services in Nigeria.

The United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has signed an agreement with Janssen Pharmaceutica NV to supply up to 220 million doses of the J&J single-dose vaccine to all 55 member-states of the African Union (AU) by the end of 2022.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has certified that China has eliminated malaria.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control NCDC has confirmed the detection of the Delta COVID-19 variant in the country.

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday relaunched the Jigi-Bola Health Mission, with a target of 250,000 Lagosians benefitting from the scheme.

Prof. Moji Adeyeye, the Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has said that the World Health Organisation (WHO) is screening the agency for a permit to produce COVID-19 vaccines in Nigeria.

Due to the spike in COVID-19 cases in some parts of the world and emergence of new variants, the Nigeria government has included South Africa to the category of countries banned from entering into Nigeria.

The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported 91 new cases but no COVID-19-related death on Tuesday, as the deadly virus continued to ravage Africa in the third wave.

Anyone vaccinated with an AstraZeneca vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India would not be qualified to get the much-trumpeted European Union COVID Digital Green Pass, which launches 1 July in what many see as a form of vaccine apartheid.

Prof. Charles Igwe, the Vice-Chancellor,  University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), says COVID-19 pandemic is indisputably the highest global challenge since World War 2.

The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency NPHCDA says more than one million Nigerians have received the first dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. 

The Nigeria Center for Disease Control(NCDC), has reported additional 50 new COVID-19 cases, as of July 5 and one death in its daily infection chart.

Nigeria is to receive 3.92million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine from the COVAX facility between the end of July and early August, the country’s Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr Faisal Shuaib said on Monday.