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Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Drops After Six Months – New Study

6Oct

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Covid-19, News, Nigeria

Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Drops After Six Months – New Study

A study has revealed that the effectiveness of the Pfizer/BioNTech SE vaccine drops in preventing infection by the coronavirus to 47% from 88% six months after the second dose, Reuters reports. This was disclosed according to data published on Monday that the United States health agencies considered when taking decisions on the need for booster shots. The data, which was published in the Lancet medical journal, had been previously issued in August ahead of peer review. Also, the vaccine's effectiveness showed that the vaccine's effectiveness in preventing hospitalisation and death remained high at 90% for at least six months, even against the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus. The data suggests that the drop is due to decreasing efficacy, rather than more conta...

I Will Receive COVID-19 Vaccine For The Sake Of The Gospel – Adeboye

2Oct

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Covid-19, News, Nigeria

I Will Receive COVID-19 Vaccine For The Sake Of The Gospel – Adeboye

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has explained that he will receive COVID-19 vaccine for the sake of the gospel. He stated this on Friday night during the monthly Holy Ghost Service programme of the church at the Redemption Camp along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The 79-year-old preacher said God’s mercies have kept Nigerians all along, noting that only those whose time to die had come died. Addressing thousands of his members, Adeboye said, “I have never said to you, ‘Don’t be vaccinated.’ You’ve never heard that from me. Rather than live in fear or doubt, get vaccinated. If you believe that getting vaccinated will put your mind at rest, then go ahead. “Daddy, are you saying that you too could be vaccinated? If there are natio...

Protest Rocks Edo After Gov Obaseki’s COVID-19 Vaccination Rule

27Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Covid-19, News, Nigeria

Protest Rocks Edo After Gov Obaseki’s COVID-19 Vaccination Rule

Members of civil society organisations and students on Monday staged a massive protest against the compulsory COVID-19 vaccination policy put in place by the Governor Godwin Obaseki-led administration. Armed with placards bearing various inscriptions, the protesters who grounded vehicular and human movements in major points in the metropolis, urged the government to share COVID-19 palliatives, and not vaccines. Some of the placards bore inscriptions like; “We need security in Edo, not vaccine; We will resist any form of executive rascality; Hunger is killing us, not COVID-19; My body is my right.” They also threatened to completely shut down government houses, government agencies/parastatals, corporate organisations enforcing ‘no vaccine, no entry’ policies, stressing that the pro...

COVID-19: FG Adjusts Restriction on Foreign Travellers

12Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Covid-19, News, Nigeria, Transportation

COVID-19: FG Adjusts Restriction on Foreign Travellers

The Federal Government has relaxed a restriction on foreign travellers without evidence of payment for their COVID-19 PCR test. In a memo by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority obtained by our correspondent on Sunday, foreign airlines were asked to board passengers without evidence of payment for Day seven COVID-19 PCR test or generate paid QR code/permit to fly. The memo dated September 11, 2021, and issued by Director-General of NCAA, Musa Nuhu, was titled “Permission for airlines to board passengers travelling to Nigeria who are unable to show evidence of payment for day seven COVID-19 PCR test or generate paid QR code/permit to fly”. Nuhu said the decision was taken in view of the challenges some travellers to Nigeria are experiencing while trying to fill their Health and Tr...

COVID-19: Lockdown May Be Reimposed In Rivers – Wike

7Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Covid-19, News, Nigeria

COVID-19: Lockdown May Be Reimposed In Rivers – Wike

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has threatened to re-impose the suspended COVID-19 lockdown measures if residents fail to comply with COVID-19 protocols. Wike said this in a broadcast in Port Harcourt. He said that daily figures released from the National Centre for Disease Control showed that both the transmission and death rates in the past two weeks had consistently been on the increase due to non compliance by the residents. He said that it remained the desire of the state government to keep the state open and allow citizens to go about their social, religious and economic activities unimpeded He, however, warned that the government might be compelled to imposed a lockdown if the residents continued to disregard the protocols. Read also: I’m Healthy, Just Undergoing T...

Christian Pilgrims Barred From Travelling Over Refusal To Take COVID-19 Vaccine

4Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Covid-19, News, Nigeria, Religion

Christian Pilgrims Barred From Travelling Over Refusal To Take COVID-19 Vaccine

Seven intending Christian pilgrims from Bauchi State have been barred from embarking on a religious pilgrimage to Israel due to their refusal to be vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine, even as 18 scholars from two universities in the state volunteered to take the jab. This was disclosed by the Executive Chairman of the Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (BASPHCDA), Dr Rilwanu Mohammed while speaking with journalists in Bauchi on Friday. Mohammed had decried the scepticism shown by the people of the state towards the COVID-19 vaccination, adding that some who did not take the vaccine wanted to be issued with vaccination cards, an act he warned against. Read also: Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Drops After Six Months – New Study He added that the fact that...

Oshoala Recovers From COVID-19, Receives African Player Of The Year Trophy

14Aug

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Covid-19, News, Nigeria, Sports

Oshoala Recovers From COVID-19, Receives African Player Of The Year Trophy

Asisat Oshoala has recovered from Covid-19. Barcelona Femeni posted a picture of the Nigerian striker training after recovering from the disease. She has also received her African Player of the Year trophy, more than a year after she won the award in January 2020. See Also: UEFA Nominates Oshoala for Player of the Year Award Oshoala is a 4-time African footballer of the year, having won the award in 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2019. Source: Nairaland

109 NYSC Members Test COVID-19 Positive, 17 Admitted

4Aug

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Covid-19, News, Nigeria

109 NYSC Members Test COVID-19 Positive, 17 Admitted

Fears are rife at the various camps of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, across the country, as at least 109 prospective corps members were diagnosed with COVID-19. The NYSC orientation camps were opened at the weekend for Batch B, Stream 1 of this year’s season of the national youth service. The cases were detected following mandatory COVID-19 tests conducted on reporting corps members. The identified cases, our reporters gathered, have been moved to isolation centres in the respective states. NYSC officials at the states level have constituted COVID-19 Vanguard, a team to aid enforce compliance to health protocols on the camps. The federal government had, on Monday, raised the alarm over the spread of the contagious Delta variant of the virus to more states, as authorities mull...

Nigeria Records 40 New Cases of COVID-19

3Jul

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Covid-19, News, Nigeria

Nigeria Records 40 New Cases of COVID-19

Nigeria has recorded 40 new cases of COVID-19 on June 2, 2021, with no related death in the daily infection chart. This was contained in an update issued by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on its website in the early hours of Saturday. The new infections indicate a decline from the 74 cases recorded a day earlier, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. The public health agency noted that the new coronavirus cases were in three states, which brought the country’s total infections to 167,732. Read Also: Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Drops After Six Months – New Study According to the NCDC, there was no new death from the disease on Friday, meaning that the total fatality toll remains 2,121. It stated that Lagos State led in Friday’s infection tally with 3...

2Jul

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Aviation, Covid-19, News, Nigeria, Transportation

Why We Banned UAE Flights – FG

The Federal Government has debunked reports that the United Arab Emirates placed a travel ban on Nigerian flights, noting that the Nigerian Government placed a ban on the UAE first due to the terms and conditions laid down by the Emirate. Recall that on June 9, the United Arab Emirates announced a lift on travel ban between Dubai and Nigeria after a prolonged dispute between both countries on Covid-19 protocols. According to the UAE, travelers from Nigeria must undergo multiple other COVID-19 tests after the initial test in Nigeria. A message from the Dubai Media Office while announcing the resumption of flight between the two countries on Saturday said, passengers from Nigeria were now expected to ‘have received a negative result for a PCR test taken within 48 hours before depart...