[ad_1] About three minutes walk from a busy road in the Tukuntawa area of Kano State is a vaccination centre where residents, passers-by, and other interested persons take jabs of COVID-19 vaccines. On a Tuesday, last month, the COVID-19 vaccinators, all women, sat on a mat placed on a cemented floor in front of a…
[ad_1] UN secretary-general António Guterres has expressed sadness over the reported death of at least 34 people in a South Africa fuel tanker explosion. On Christmas Eve, the blast in Boksburg, a suburb of the capital, Johannesburg, severely damaged the emergency department’s roof at the Tambo Memorial Hospital, killing and injuring dozens while reportedly destroying…
[ad_1] Novak Djokovic received a positive welcome back to Australia as he made a rare doubles appearance at the Adelaide International. The Serb was deported prior to the 2022 Australian Open because of his Covid-19 vaccination status. Djokovic’s three-year visa ban was overturned in November, allowing him to enter the country. He and Canada’s Vasek…
[ad_1] (Xinhua) 09:15, January 03, 2023 LONDON, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) — Scientists have dismissed British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s decision to impose COVID-19 tests on travelers from China, calling it “a purely political manoeuvre,” British newspaper The Guardian has reported. Scientists said testing travelers from China will “make no difference to the rise or fall”…
[ad_1] Ahead of today’s burial of football’s indisputable King, Edson Arantes dos Nascimento, popularly known as Pele, President of Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau has described the potentate’s contributions to football as ineffable. King Pele, who won three FIFA World Cup titles and scored a total of 1,279 goals in 1,363 games, died…
[ad_1] The funeral of legendary Brazilian footballer Pele will take place in Santos, with the footballer’s mother, Celeste, unaware of the three-time World Cup winner’s death Pele’s mother, Celeste, will have an opportunity to say a final goodbye to her son, after initially being tragically unaware the Brazilian legend had died. The footballer, who won…
[ad_1] (Xinhua) 08:42, January 03, 2023 Medical workers treat patients at a fever clinic at Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University in Shenyang, northeast China’s Liaoning Province, Dec. 15, 2022. (Xinhua/Yang Qing) BEIJING, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) — As multiple regions in China are hit with surging COVID-19 infections, local hospitals are going all out to…
[ad_1] From Chijioke Agwu, Abakaliki Fear and apprehension, yesterday, gripped residents of Akpoha community of Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State following the outbreak of Cholera which resulted in the death of eight persons. Sources in the area who confirmed the incident to Daily Sun in Abakaliki, said the dead included children. It…
[ad_1] The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), FCT chapter, has advised the federal and state governments to set up referral centres for rape and gender violence cases across the country. The chairman of the FCT branch, Comrade Deborah Yusuf, stated this while marking the end of the 16 days of activism against…
[ad_1] (Xinhua) 08:53, January 03, 2023 A closed testing centre is seen in Heathrow Airport in London, Britain, March 18, 2022. (Xinhua/Li Ying) The ineffectiveness of international travel restrictions in preventing the spread of COVID-19 and its multiple variants of concern (VOCs) has been unequivocally recognized by both the European Centre for Disease Prevention and…
