You’re probably living under a rock if you’ve not heard about intermittent fasting because it’s one of the most popular health and fitness trends right now. It was the most

The Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) has concluded plans to build a world-class hospital in Abuja, as part of efforts to strengthen the country’s healthcare system. NSIA is also developing

The Delta variant is much more contagious, more likely to break through protections afforded by the vaccines and may cause more severe disease than all other known versions of the

German Pharmaceutical company BioNTech has said it aims to start trying out a malaria vaccine by next year – which may come as a relief to thousands of children in

Hospitals in Senegal’s capital Dakar were “close to saturation” on Monday due to a surge in Covid-19 patients, with overworked medical personnel facing burnout. The country’s health ministry said the labs were also

Nigeria’s federal government has directed all Covid-19 Isolation Centres across the country to immediately activate their facilities in anticipation of a possible spike in infection. Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie

California will require millions of health care workers and state employees to show proof of a COVID-19 vaccination or get tested weekly, announcing a broad measure Monday to try to

The US is heading “in the wrong direction” on the coronavirus pandemic as infections surge among the unvaccinated, the country’s top infectious disease expert has warned. Dr Anthony Fauci said

Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has lamented the low rate of Covid-19 vaccination in Nigeria and Africa, in general. Okonjo-Iweala said to fill the

A longer gap between first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine makes the body’s immune system produce more infection-fighting antibodies, UK researchers have found. Experts say the findings

The speed and scale of the coronavirus outbreak in Indonesia has created a perfect breeding ground for a potential new super-strain that could be even more contagious and deadly than

Two doses of Pfizer or AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine are nearly as effective against the highly transmissible Delta coronavirus variant as they are against the previously dominant Alpha variant, according to

Indonesia has converted nearly its entire oxygen production to medical use just to meet the demand from COVID-19 patients struggling to breathe. Overflowing hospitals in Malaysia had to resort to

China has rejected a proposal from the World Health Organization (WHO) that the expert team investigating the origins of COVID-19 should return to the sites in China where the coronavirus

India’s excess deaths during the pandemic could be a staggering 10 times the official Covid-19 toll, likely making it modern India’s worst human tragedy, according to the most comprehensive research

Boris Johnson was reluctant to tighten Covid restrictions as cases rose last autumn because he thought people dying from it were “essentially all over 80”, Dominic Cummings has claimed. He

Nigeria’s National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned Nigerian researchers in the nation’s ivory towers and other herbal medicine practitioners to desist from parading unverified

Nigeria’s federal government has put six states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on red alert as part of the preventive measures against the third wave of Covid-19. The Presidential

Nigeria’s National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has approved three additional Covid-19 vaccines for use. Ahead of the arrival of more vaccines doses in Nigeria, the

Brazilian president’s office says Jair Bolsonaro is suffering from an intestinal blockage and may need emergency surgery. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been transferred to a hospital in Sao Paulo