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Nigeria and the rest of the world continued last week to battle the coronavirus pandemic which has infected over 16 million people and caused at leastHealthcare workers, who are first responders to patients are amongst those infected with the World Health Organisation reporting that over 100,000 of them had been infected in Africa.
to reduce the burden of HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria over an implementation period of three years, 2021 to 2023. The UN health agency, which warned of the threat posed by COVID-19 to health workers across Africa, added that “this is a huge challenge medical staff on the frontlines of the outbreak face.
The door-to-door campaign to vaccinate 800,000 children under the age of five is scheduled to last three days in polio hot spots. Chikwe Ihekweazu, Director-General, NCDC, made this known during the Presidential Tasks Force on COVID-19 briefing on Thursday in Abuja.
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