Red-Diamond/Shutterstock Lara Herrero, Griffith University We’ve now been living with COVID for well over four years. Although there’s still much to learn about SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID) at least one thing seems clear: it’s here to stay. From the original Wuhan variant, to Delta, to Omicron, and several others in between, the virus has continued to evolve. New ...

Following a recommendation from the World Health Organization (WHO) Emergency Committee for COVID-19, WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has confirmed that COVID-19 will no longer be categorized a Public Health Emergency of International Concern(PHEIC). WHO declares a PHEIC when an emergency is “serious, sudden, unusual or unexpected”, with implications for health beyond the affected state’s national borders – ...

Last week, Burkina Faso surpassed the 10 per cent COVID-19 vaccination milestone (of total population, fully vaccinated), a noteworthy step in the protection of lives and towards ending vaccine inequity. Despite competing health priorities, Burkina Faso working together with stakeholders and partners including COVAX has made efforts to roll out strategies to drive vaccine demand with uptake growing in recent ...

Malawi has surpassed the 10 per cent COVID-19 vaccination milestone (of total population, fully vaccinated), a noteworthy step in the protection of lives and towards ending vaccine inequity. Since the start of COVID-19 vaccination in March 2021, the Malawi government, working together with stakeholders and partners including COVAX, has made effort to sustain COVID-19 vaccination across the country despite competing ...

Last week, South Sudan surpassed the 10 percent COVID-19 vaccination milestone (of total population, fully vaccinated with a primary series of two doses), a noteworthy step in the protection of lives and towards ending vaccine inequity. The South Sudan government, working together with stakeholders and partners, has made effort to sustain COVID-19 vaccination across the country despite competing health priorities ...

No fewer than 21 Nigerians died on December 25 (Christmas day) from COVID-19  complications even as the death toll from the virus in the country hits 3,014. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made this known in its daily update, yesterday, where it also announced 1,305 new cases on Christmas day with Lagos topping the list with 705. The new infections ...

Britain raised its COVID alert level on Sunday in response to the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of the virus, as medical authorities warned that hospitalisations are likely to rise sharply over the coming weeks. The chief medical officers of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland recommended an increase to alert level 4 from level 3 on its 5-point ...

Activist Deji Adeyanju of Concerned Nigerians has said that medical tourists to the United Kingdom including President Muhammadu Buhari will be most affected by the travel restrictions slammed on Nigeria by Britain. He stated this in a chat with The PUNCH, adding that the travel restriction by the Boris Johnson administration, as well as other nations, was baseless as there was ...

…Offenders’ passports to be blacklisted for one year. …Gov warns against procurement of fake COVID-19 test results Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday said his government through the courts will prosecute anyone found wanting in compliance with the current guidelines on travel protocols released by the Presidential Steering Committee. Sanwo-Olu said Lagos State Government in partnership with the ...

What not to do: ban travel. Scenes at South Africa’s OR Tambo International airport after the first flight bans were announced. Phill Magakoe / AFP via Getty Images Shabir A. Madhi, University of the Witwatersrand South Africa reacted with outrage to travel bans, first triggered by the UK, imposed on it in the wake of the news that its genomics ...