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The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 152 new infections of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the country.SEE ALSO: Financial Burden of Amnesty Programme Unsustainable – Expertise The NCDC made this known…

Senegal’s COVID-19 cases surpassed the 12,000-mark, on Saturday, after 160 more cases were reported in the past 24 hours by the country’s Health Ministry. SEE ALSO: Coronavirus: Donald Trump To Bar Media Presence At His Election Nomination…

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 457 new cases of the COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections to 44,890. SEE ALSO: Agency warns Nigerians against complacency on wild polio virus The NCDC made this known…

Kwara has recorded 87 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of infections in the state to 672, with 244 discharged and 14 deaths.SEE ALSO: Oil steady as vaccine news counters rise in virus casesMr Rafiu Ajakaye, the Chief…

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, says that  the active cases of COVID-19 in Lagos communities yet to be admitted into the state’s care centres for treatment have reduced to 2,036. SEE ALSO: Court dismisses suit…

Nigeria has recorded 603 new COVID-19 cases in the country, as total infections from the virus climbed 28,167.SEE ALSO: Cosmetic Surgeon Dr Anu Arrested, Charged To Court Over Patient’s Death The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control…

Nigeria has recorded 649 new cases of COVID-19 pandemic, bringing the total number of infections in the country, as at June 24, to 22,020. SEE ALSO: NIMASA Begins Prosecution of Suspected Pirates Under New Act The Nigeria Centre for…

Ethiopia’s confirmed COVID-19 cases reached 5,034 after 186 new positive cases were confirmed on Wednesday, the Ethiopian Ministry of Health said. SEE ALSO: NSE Commits N100m To Support Fight Against Coronavirus The ministry, in a…

The Osun government on Wednesday said it had recorded seven new cases of COVID-19 in the state. SEE ALSO: Benue Teenager Allegedly Raped by APGA Chieftain Few days after Surgery Dr Rafiu Isamotu, the State Commissioner for Health, said…

Nigeria on Sunday recorded 436 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 20,244.SEE ALSO: Benin Residents Rendered Homeless Over Heavy Downpour The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)…

The Enugu State House of Assembly Committee on Health has advocated community testing for COVID-19 infection of indigenes and residents of the state. SEE ALSO: Public Servants in Kaduna State Decry 25% Salary Cut The Health Committee…

About half a billion people worldwide are living with genital herpes while several billions of people have oral herpes infection, new estimates by the World Health Organisation (WHO) have shown. SEE ALSO: Why you shouldn't use saliva as…

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Sunday confirmed 91 new cases of COVID-19 outbreak in the country, bringing the total number of infections in Nigeria to 1,273. SEE ALSO: Trump ‘encouraging people to violate law,’ Risks…

The Kano State Ministry of Health on Monday says the state has recorded 23 additional cases of COVID-19 virus infection.It also says in its verified Twitter [email protected] that the fresh cases have put the number of infected persons in…

China where the coronavirus outbreak first emerged in December reported dwindling new infections on Wednesday. SEE ALSO: Bauchi Self-Isolate 27 People After Contact With Infected Governor For the first time it disclosed the number of…

The number of deaths in Italy as a result of the coronavirus epidemic rose sharply on Sunday, jumping by 133 cases to a total of 366.SEE ALSO:Lagos Deputy Governor Obafemi Hamzat speaks on Italian infected with CoronavirusThe…

Ify Nwoye, public relations officer of the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA), told TheCable on Monday that they got a report about a week ago of how students were being rushed to the sickbay in their hundreds.“We got there around 2 pm…

An American woman, Marie Trainer, who contracted an infection from the saliva of her  dog, has had her legs and hands amputated.Marie’s sad ordeal is said to have started after she got back to the United States from a Holiday in…

Dr Theodore Yakubu, a gynaecologist, has advised women susceptible to dyspareunia (sexual, yeast infections) to avoid using nylon (elastic) pants to free themselves of such infections. Yakubu gave the advice in an interview with the News…

Lassa fever was first discovered in the town of Lassa Borno state in 1969 and is named after the town. It is an acute viral haermorrhagic fever that lasts from 2- 21 days and is caused by a single strand of RNA virus belonging to the family…

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has suffered another outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus several days after being certified Ebola free by the World Health Organisation (WHO).The WHO had declared DRC Ebola free after the most…