The United Kingdom on Monday justified its travel ban on Nigeria, saying the measure was a temporary measure aimed at protecting its public health. The Head of Communications, British High Commission, Dean Hurlock, stated this in response to inquiries from UGAMATV on Monday evening, just at the Federal Government said the Presidential Steering Committee on...
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Omicron: Hours After Adding Nigeria To Red List, UK Announces Plan To Suspend Processing Of Visitor Visa Applications
The British High Commission has said it will pause making decisions on visitor visa applications from all red list countries including Nigeria. The commission announced the decision in a statement issued on Sunday. On Saturday, Nigeria was added by the United Kingdom to a red list over Omicron, a variant of Coronavirus. Following the latest...
South Korea Confirms Omicron Variant, Records 5,000 COVID-19 Infections In One Day
The health authorities in South Korea has announced the presence of Omicron, the new variant of Coronavirus in the country. It announced on Wednesday that more than 5,000 new Coronavirus infections were recorded in one day for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic. The Office of Disease Control and Prevention reported four...
Canada Extends Travel Ban To Nigeria Over Omicron Variant
Amid the growing concerns over the Omicron variant of COVID-19, Canada has added Egypt, Malawi, and Nigeria to the ‘travel ban’ list. “We are adding three countries to the list of these countries that we talked about last Friday, these are Malawi, Egypt and Nigeria,” Canadian Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos was quoted as saying by...
COVID-19: Canada confirms 3 cases of Omicron variant
The Canadian Province’s Health Minister, Christian Dubé, on Monday confirmed first case of COVID-19 Omicron variant in Quebec, bringing the total to three in the country. Dubé told reporters at a briefing that 115 travellers coming from countries impacted by the new variant, primarily South Africa, were called and asked to take a new PCR...
COVID-19: Germany’s death toll passes 100,000
More than 100,000 people have died of Covid-19 in Germany since the start of the pandemic, a public health agency announced Thursday. Europe’s largest economy is battling a fresh surge in coronavirus cases, and recorded 351 fatalities in the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll to 100,119, according to figures from the Robert...
12 states, FCT report 144 new COVID-19 cases, five deaths
12 states and the Federal Capital Territory reported 144 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, according to figures released on Wednesday by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. The agency also reported five additional COVID-19 related deaths. The NCDC disclosed this on its official website on Wednesday. Imo recorded the highest number of infection with...
11 states, FCT report 176 new cases of COVID-19, five deaths
11 states and the Federal Capital Territory reported 176 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, according to figures released on Saturday by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. The agency also reported five additional COVID-19 related deaths. The NCDC disclosed this on its official website on Saturday. The FCT recorded the highest number of new...
COVID-19: FG expecting 40m vaccine doses by January 2022
The National Economic Council presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has revealed that the Federal Government has paid for 40m doses of Covid-19 vaccines. This is as it explained that the vaccines will come into the country in batches between October 2021 and January 2022. This was part of the progress report of the...
WHO establishes new scientific group to study COVID origins
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday launched an expert group that will examine the origins of new pathogens, including SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The proposed members of the WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) were selected for their expertise in areas such as epidemiology, animal health, clinical...