For the first time, Lagos recorded no new case of COVID-19
The city of Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital city and the epicentre of the country's COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic reached a major...
New fund expands Nigeria’s COVID-19 testing capabilities
54gene, genomics research, services, and development company, recently launched a fund to tackle the current challenges around testing for COVID-19...
BREAKING: Nigeria confirms 5 new cases of COVID-19, total now 8
Nigeria's health ministry today announced 5 new cases of COVID-19 coronavirus disease in Nigeria bringing the total number confirmed cases...
Nigeria announces second confirmed case of COVID-19 coronavirus disease
The Nigerian government through the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) today announced it has confirmed a second case of...
Confirmed cases of coronavirus disease have surpassed 100,000
On March 7, the global number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 has surpassed 100,000. In a statement, the World Health...
Nigeria’s first case of coronavirus disease confirmed in Lagos
The Federal Ministry of Health has confirmed a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) case in Lagos State, Nigeria. The case, which was...
How novel coronavirus became a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
The Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom, has declared that the outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)...
A breakdown of Nigeria’s 2020 budget for health
As 2020 gets underway, we take a closer look at what Nigeria wants to spend on health as contained in...
We can now know who is more likely to commit suicide
An international team of researchers has identified key networks within the brain which they say interact to increase the risk...
The link between poverty and fertility
In the 1950's the average woman had five children, since then the number has halved globally - but not in...
© 2017 HealthNews.NG - Owned by Glumedia Company.