• Variant linked to travellers from Cameroun• U.S. sets global record, announces over one million COVID-19 cases in single day• WHO says more evidence shows Omicron causes milder symptoms• COVID-19 has come to stay like yearly flu, Osibogun, Ashiru, Agwale say As the world grapples with the highly mutated OmicronContinue Reading
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed its first case of the Covid-19 Omicron variant in Nigeria. The NCDC disclosed this on Wednesday morning in a statement confirming the detection of the variant also known as the B.1.1.529 lineage. The agency revealed the samples obtained for the stipulatedContinue Reading
THE Nigerian High Commission in London, United Kingdom (UK), has been shut after officials tested positive for COVID-19. According to the letter from the High Commission, the closure will last 10 days, beginning from Thursday, when the strains of the deadly disease were detected in the diplomats. The embassy didContinue Reading
THE management of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) has ordered the closure of the institution beginning today over the resurgence of COVID-19 on the university campus. This decision was reached at an emergency Senate meeting held on Wednesday. Students have also been directed to move out their belongings and vacateContinue Reading
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has tested positive for the coronavirus, a stunning development that came hours after he confirmed one of his longest-serving aides with whom he had recently traveled also received a positive test result. The revelation had implications for the president’s health, the administration’s response to theContinue Reading
European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control says probability of further transmission of ‘high’ despite efforts The Coronavirus outbreak could cause “huge economic and societal disruption”, the EU’s centre for disease control has warned. In its Monday update on the spread of the disease the ECDC said that “the risk associated withContinue Reading
The University of Oxford’s Evolutionary Ecology of Infectious Disease group found that far more people in the UK could have contracted coronavirus than previously thought Coronavirus may have already infected more than half the UK population, researchers say. University of Oxford Professor Sunetra Gupta said it could mean less thanContinue Reading
Copper can effectively help to prevent the spread of respiratory viruses, which are linked to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), new research shows. Animal coronaviruses that ‘host jump’ to humans, such as SARS and MERS, result in severe infections with high mortality. Researchers foundContinue Reading
Let me lay it out simply: If you’re working from home during the coronavirus lockdown, you should get a laptop stand. Honestly. Your body will thank you. Anyway, onto my deeply, deeply uninspiring journey. Here at TNW we were asked to work from home in the middle of March. Now,Continue Reading
By UbongAbasi Okon In the last 6 months, coronavirus pandemic has disrupted and threatened every sector of business critically. We are in terrible times nobody ever planned and the future continues to look bleak. As the days go by, business owners and entrepreneurs are becoming more and more confused andContinue Reading
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