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What you need to know about Omicron COVID variant

The new COVID-19 variant, B.1.1.529, was first reported to the World Health Organisation (WHO) from South Africa on November 24, 2021. The first known

Preventing epidemics: Need to mainstream National Action Plan for Health Security from 2022 MDA budgets

Against the backdrop of emerging and re-emerging diseases in Nigeria, experts have called for the inclusion of the National Action Plan for Health Sec

‘HIV: Nigeria witnessing more people on treatment, viral suppression’

Dr. Gambo Aliyu is the Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA). In this interview ahead of the World AIDS Day, he speak

COVID-19: FG to review travels, other protocols over Omicron variant

The federal government on Monday said it will review the nation’s travel and other protocols to curtail the entry or spread of the new Omicron variant

No Cholera in Ebonyi, says health commissioner

Ebonyi State Commissioner for Health, Dr Daniel Umezurike, has dismissed reports trending in some media over an outbreak of Cholera in Ndegu Amaegu co