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“Its people are witnessing daily threats to their very existence – while the world watches on”, warned Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths in a statement, adding that “hope has never been more elusive” amidst deteriorating conditions. “The humanitarian community has been left with the impossible mission of supporting more than …

U.S. first lady, Jill Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 just days before President Joe Biden, who tested negative for the virus, is due to travel to a Group of 20 summit in India, the White House has said. Biden’s 72-year-old wife, whose symptoms were described as mild, last had …

Jill Biden, the first lady, tested positive for Covid-19, the White House announced late Monday night, but she is experiencing only mild symptoms and will remain at the family home in Rehoboth Beach, Del., where she and President Biden spent part of the weekend. Mr. Biden tested negative for the …

The Ministry of Health has debunked a memo from the National Obstetric Fistula Centre, Abakaliki, Ebonyi state, alerting workers of an outbreak of a new variant of COVID-19.    The memo titled ‘’FYI: COVID is on the prowl again, caution, please,” read;    “With the new variant, BA.4 and BA.5 …

An unfortunate case of a common misdiagnosis, good thing, he’s okay. Big Brother Naija star Kiddwaya has disclosed that he was wrongly prescribed and put on blood pressure medication for three …

The Officer-in-Charge, Port Health Services (PHS) of the airport , Dr. Omede Ogu, has said that proactive measures are already in place at Nigeria’s main entry point, Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja-  to prevent the new COVID-19 variant from slipping into the country.   In an interview with the News …

A heavily-mutated Covid variant dubbed the ‘real deal’ is already in the UK, health officials confirmed on Friday, August 18 amid fears it could trigger a fresh wave.   Virus-tracking researchers detected the Omicron spin-off – nicknamed Pirola but also known scientifically as BA.X/BA.2.86 – in a patient hospitalised in …

Mark Meadows left a House seat that he could have had for a very long time to be Trump’s chief of staff, and he got in return was COVID and a criminal indictment. MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle tweeted: Mark Meadows gave up a safe and …

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dished out wild COVID-19 conspiracy theories during a press event at an Upper East Side restaurant this week, claiming Covid was a genetically engineered bioweapon that may have been “ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people.   Kennedy said this during …

Two world-renowned virologists appeared on Capitol Hill on Tuesday and delivered a pointed defense of their findings that the coronavirus pandemic was natural in origin, and told skeptical Republicans that Dr. Anthony S. Fauci did not exert influence over a scientific paper they wrote to that effect. The paper is …