Tag: Coronavirus
COVID-19 deaths in African region to fall by nearly 94% in...
THUR, 02 JUNE, 2022-theGBJournal| COVID-19 deaths in the African region are expected to decline by almost 94% in 2022, compared with 2021 which was...
Vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks on the rise in Africa- WHO
THUR 28 APRIL, 2022-theGBJournal | Africa is witnessing a surge in outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases over the past year, says the World Health Organisation...
EU leaders react to new, scary COVID-19 variant first detected in...
FRI 26 NOV, 2021-theGBJournal- The World Health Organisation (WHO), said today that it will take a while to understand the impact of the new...
Virus Update: The numbers are looking pretty good
By Charlie Robertson
THUR 01 JULY, 2021-theGBJournal- My 20 year old son is isolating upstairs with COVID (half his friends have it too) and another...
UBA Group Africa conversations: President Kagame, Okonjo-Iweala and Makhtar Diop lead...
By Charles Ike-Okoh
WED 26 MAY, 2021-theGBJournal-The conversation yesterday of African leading voices at a panel session discussion-the UBA Group Africa Conversation-has come at a...
Public-private data project a COVID game-changer in West and East Africa
The USAID-funded Regional Action Through Data (RAD) programme launches game-changing daily COVID dashboards in West and East Africa and a ground-breaking childhood cross-border immunisation...
Nigeria announces COVID-19 curfew and restrictions, effective from midnight Tuesday
By Chrystal NK Chukwudebe
MON 10 MAY, 2021-theGBJournal- The Federal Government on Monday announced phase IV of COVID-19 curfew across the 36 states of the...
COVID-19: Nigeria Centre for Disease Control highlights Nigeria’s response since the...
MON 01 MARCH, 2021-theGBJournal- On Saturday 27th of February 2020, Nigeria detected her first case of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). This was the...
Kano Government directs civil servants to stay at home, bans viewing...
By Audrey Lotchukwu
TUE 19 JAN, 2021-theGBJournal- Kano State Government has imposed fresh ban on the activities of viewing and event centres across the state...
COVID-19 confirmed cases soar above 100k in Nigeria for the first
By Audrey Lotechukwu
MON 11 JAN, 2021-theGBJournal- A further 1024 people in Nigeria were confirmed positive with the deadly coronvirus Sunday to take the total...