Tag: coronavirus
Report: How the Ebola experience helped the African continent’s fight against COVID-19
BY ANTHONY AKAEZEA Nigerian scientist has spent the holiday season in his laboratory doing genetic sequencing to learn more about the country’s COVID-19 variant,...
Why are people breaking the Covid rules? The psychology explained
BY ELLA ALEXANDERNow weeks into our third national lockdown, the nation oscillates between acceptance, despair and exasperation. Nearly 12 months since the country was...
Many scientists citing two scandalous COVID-19 papers ignore their retractions
By Charles PillerJan.In June 2020, in the biggest research scandal of the pandemic so far, two of the most important medical journals each retracted...
Lagos isolation bed occupancy now 61%, says Abayomi
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has disclosed that the bed occupancy in the isolation centres has risen to 61 per...
60 percent of Lagos-Ibadan railway workers infected with COVID-19 ― Amaechi
Over 60 percent of the workforce on the construction of the Lagos-Ibadan railway project are currently battling with COVID-19 infection.The Minister of Transportation, Hon...
WHO ‘disappointed’ as China delays probe of pandemic origins
World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was “disappointed” that Chinese officials have not finalised permission for the arrival of a...