The Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 has limited indoor religious gatherings to fifty per cent with full compliance to public health measures. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha announced this in a statement. He explained that there had been reduced compliance to public health social measures which had led to increased COVID-19 cases…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says the country is now in a full fourth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. The NCDC declaration comes with the confirmation of one thousand, three hundred and sixty-eight new cases of coronavirus across the country yesterday. According to the NCDC update last night, Lagos State recorded the highest number of new…
The Lagos State Government has started clamping down on people who arrive in the state from overseas countries without going through the laid down Covid-19 guidelines. The guidelines require that international passengers who arrived in Nigeria must submit themselves for Day Two and Day Seven PCR tests. The Director of Public Affairs in Lagos State Ministry of…
The UK government says that all eleven countries will be removed from the it’s travel red list on Wednesday. Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe are on the list. The red list was reintroduced in late November as a precaution after the emergence of the Omicron variant of Covid-19. UK…
The Lagos State Government has declared a fourth wave of Covid-19, with positive test rate said to be at six percent, as against less than zero in the middle of November. The declaration by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu is contained in a copy of a media briefing obtained by Lasgidi FM News Desk. Governor Sanwo-Olu said analysis by…
The Federal Government has called on the government of the United Kingdom to remove Nigeria from its list of countries that are under observation for the Omicron variant of Covid-19. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, who made the call, condemned the red listing of Nigeria by the UK because of two cases of the…