Health

China’s Sinovac Covid Vaccine to Be Included in Brazil Immunisation Plan

Brazil plans to use a Chinese-made coronavirus vaccine as part of a national immunisation programme, officials have announced. São Paulo…

4 years ago

Coronavirus: Ireland to Enter New Six-week Lockdown from Wednesday

Ireland’s Prime Minister Micheál Martin has announced a new six-week ‘level 5’ lockdown to try and fence off the rising…

4 years ago

Belgium ‘Could Be Overwhelmed’ By New Coronavirus Infections, Health Minister Says

Belgium could soon be overwhelmed by new coronavirus infections, the health minister has warned, amid soaring case numbers across the…

4 years ago

Global Coronavirus Cases Surpass 40 Million

Worldwide coronavirus cases have passed the 40 million mark, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University. Experts believe the…

4 years ago

Frozen Food Packages Polluted by Coronavirus Could Cause Infection, China’s CDC Says

China’s disease control authority said on Saturday that contact with frozen food packaging contaminated by living new coronavirus could cause…

4 years ago

Hundreds in China Queue for Experimental Covid-19 Vaccine

Hundreds of people have been gathering outside a hospital in Yiwu, a city in the Zhejiang province in eastern China,…

4 years ago

Remdesivir Fails to Prevent Covid-19 Deaths, According to WHO Trial

  Anti-viral drug remdesivir has little to no effect on Covid patients' chances of survival, according to a study of more…

4 years ago

COVID-19: 181 Students Contract Virus in Lagos Private School

Lagos state commissioner for Health Professor Akin Abayomi has said that one hundred and eighty-one students and staff of a…

4 years ago

President Putin Approves Second Russian Coronavirus Vaccine

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday gave the approval for a second coronavirus vaccine. "Novosibirsk's Vector Centre (Vector State Research…

4 years ago

Washing of Hands with Soap Cuts Deaths from Diarrhoea by Almost Half

As the world commemorates this year's edition of the Global Handwashing Day, Nigeria's Minister of Water Resources Engr. Suleiman Adamu…

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