The federal government of Nigeria through the Ministry of Health has dismissed reports about the outbreak of a new and deadly variant of COVID-19 in the...
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Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has said that there is no cause for alarm over the emergence of the Omicron...
The World Health Organisation, on Thursday, updated its tracking system and working definitions for variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. WHO...
No new variants of COVID-19 emerged in Beijing in the weeks after China ended its zero-Covid policy late last year, a new study said on Wednesday. China saw an...
The World Health Organisation says sequencing remains vital to detecting and tracking the emergence and spread of new variants of COVID-19, such as XBB.1.5. Dr...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has said that the COVID-19 Omicron sub-lineages partly responsible for the current increase in COVID-19...
Canada‘s requirement of a negative COVID-19 test of travellers from China will not help in preventing new variants or the spread of the virus, say experts...
The report said that the experts agreed to name the clades using roman numerals. “The monkeypox virus was named upon first discovery in 1958, before current...
