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White House officials say President Joe Biden appears to be doing well after he tested positive for COVID-19 Thursday morning. On Friday morning, Presidential physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor reported that Biden had a slight fever on Thursday evening, but had taken Acetaminophen for it. Dr. O’Connor also reported that Biden …

#FeatureByOlamideAkinolugbade – Although COVID-19 cases dropped significantly in Nigeria within the past year, cases are beginning to rise again. Just recently, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) recently reported 347 cases of COVID-19 and Lagos alone accounts for 265 (76%). This begs the question of how ready Lagos and …

US President Joe Biden has tested positive for Covid-19.   His administration announced on Thursday, July 21, that the 79-year-old was experiencing “mild symptoms” and would carry out his full duties while isolating at the White House.   “He is fully vaccinated and twice boosted and experiencing very mild symptoms,” the White House …

The music of Crosby, Stills and Nash is once again available to stream on Spotify. In February, the supergroup left the platform to protest Spotify’s inaction against Joe Rogan, who was accused of spreading COVID-19 misinformation through his podcast. According to , the trio plan to donate their Spotify earnings to …

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is cooperating with the online encyclopedia Wikipedia to spread reliable information about COVID-19 across the globe. The UN health agency and the Wikimedia Foundation announced this on Thursday. The hundreds of thousands of volunteer editors who are continuously updating Wikipedia will have free access to …

From the mangroves of West Bengal to the vast archipelago that makes up Indonesia, and from the bustling port city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, to the tropical shores of southern Togo, systemic risks from the COVID-19 pandemic have been exposed in stark human terms. Millions of people who were already struggling …

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stressed in his weekly briefing to journalists that the global figure overall remains “relatively stable”, but nobody should be under any illusion, that the coronavirus is on the way out. “#COVID19, driven by BA.4 and BA.5 in many places, cases are on the rise in …

The US will no longer require international travellers to have proof of a negative Covid-19 test before entering the country.   A senior administration official and a US Centers For Disease Control and Prevention official said they were dropping the requirement due to the “tremendous progress” the country had made in …

The Spanish government has donated 4.4 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to the Federal Government towards containing the spread of the Coronavirus This is contained in a statement by the embassy titled “No one will be safe until we are all safe” in Abuja on Wednesday. The …

It’s unclear how many infections have been detected but state-run news agency KCNA reported on Thursday that cases of the Omicron variant had been found in the capital Pyongyang. Samples collected from a group of people experiencing fevers on May 8 tested positive for the highly contagious Omicron variant, KCNA …