LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Canada has detected its first cases of the new Omicron strain of Covid, in two people who had traveled recently to Nigeria, Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said in a statement on Sunday. “I was informed today by the Public Health Agency of Canada that testing and monitoring of Covid-19 cases has confirmed two…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Inappropriate use of antimicrobials in animals is growing global concern, shows a report released by World Animal Protection ahead of World Antimicrobial Awareness Week. The study done in November and December 2020 consisted of a cross-sectional survey targeting veterinary drug stores (agrovets), pharmacies, farmers, and the public across 19 counties in Kenya…
LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria will require civil servants to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 or a negative test for the disease to gain access to their offices from the beginning of December, a presidential committee said on Wednesday. The presidential committee said unvaccinated government workers will need to present a negative test result done…
LAGOS OCTOBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS) – Nigeria got approval on Friday for $400 million in World Bank financing to procure and deploy COVID-19 vaccinations, the bank said in a statement. The World Bank board of directors signed off on the financing, provided via the International Development Association, which it said would enable Africa’s most populous nation…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Australian police on Monday expressed disappointment at the Sydney branch of Christ Embassy Church for flouting the city’s COVID-19 lockdown by holding a service for 60 people in a pandemic hotspot. The church is part of Christ Embassy, an international religious group headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, which has a record of spreading…
LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Rev. Jesse Jackson, and his wife, Jacqueline, remained under doctors’ observation Sunday at a Chicago hospital and were “responding positively to treatments” for COVID-19, their son told The Associated Press. The couple, married for nearly six decades, were admitted to Northwestern Memorial Hospital a day earlier. Physicians were “carefully monitoring their…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria has received 4 million doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines donated by the United States government, its health minister said on Monday, as the West African country battles a third wave of infections. Osagie Ehanire said the vaccines, which arrived on Sunday, are undergoing validation by the country’s drug regulator. He said…
LAGOS JULY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The number of daily new COVID-19 infections has shot up almost 50 percent in the United States amid the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant — with rises even recorded in states with high vaccination rates, data shows. The US on Tuesday recorded an average of 19,455 new cases per day over the…