The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported that more seven million deaths from COVID-19 have been recorded in the past five years. Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, stated this on Wednesday during an online media conference. According to him, the true death toll is estimated to be at least three times higher. Ghebreyesus … Read more
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has allayed public fears over the detection of the SARS-CoV-2 XEC subvariant globally. The Director-General of the centre, Dr Jide Idris, did this in a public advisory issued on Saturday night in Abuja, made available to newsmen. Idris reassured Nigerians that the variant, though identified in … Read more
The federal government (FG) has said there is no evidence of the COVID-19 variant known as XEC in Nigeria, and advised the general public not to panic but continue with the universal precautions of observing personal hygiene including regular washing of hands. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the newly detected COVID-19 variant was reported in Australia and … Read more