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Lagos Pulls COVID-19 Cases Down 53% To 182

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After consistently recording more 200 new cases in the last 12 days, Nigeria had a respite with 182 new cases of COVID-19 in 15 states and the FCT on Thursday.

The 182 new cases was a significant 53% less than the 389 figure that was attained on Wednesday.

The new cases brought the total number of cases in the country to 8,915 recorded in 35 states and the FCT. Cross River State is the only state in the country yet to report an incident of the pandemic.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC also announced that five more persons had died from the pandemic bringing the total number of mortalities since the advent of the pandemic to 259.

Lagos continued to have the highest number of new cases with 111 new cases reported in the nation’s commercial capital. That was also a 56% less reflecting the weight of the figures from Lagos on the national records.

The NCDC in its daily report tweeted thus:

The distribution of the disease across the state is as follow:

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COVID-19 Quarantine Bus Crash In China Claims 27 Lives

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A bus crash has claimed the lives of twenty-seven passengers in southwest China on their way to a Covid-19 quarantine facility.

According to local authorities, this is the country’s deadliest road accident this year.

The crash occurred on a highway in rural Guizhou province when the vehicle carrying 47 people “flipped onto its side,” according to Sandu county police in a social media statement.

Police said that twenty people were being treated for injuries and that emergency responders had been dispatched to the remote Qiannan prefecture.

Later Sunday, the Guizhou government confirmed that the vehicle was “transporting people linked to the epidemic to quarantine” from Guiyang, the provincial capital, and that the accident occurred around 2:40 a.m. (1840 GMT).

“At the moment, on-site rescue work is essentially finished, the treatment of the injured and aftercare of the deceased are being carried out in an orderly manner, and the cause of the accident is being investigated,” the local government said in a social media statement.

It was unclear whether the passengers had Covid, were close contacts, or lived in the same building as virus patients.

Guizhou has seen over 900 new infections in the last two days, and Guiyang, which has a population of six million people, was closed down earlier this month.

Photos were widely shared on social media. A gold-colored passenger bus with its top completely crumpled was towed by a truck on Sunday.

Another viral photo showed the bus driving at night, with the driver and passengers dressed in hazmat suits, which are still worn in China to protect against COVID-19.

The photos could not be verified by AFP.

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Stop Wearing Mask, No More COVID-19 In Nigeria, Abroad; Rep Member Tells Speaker

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A member of the house of representatives, Olufemi Adebanjo, representing Alimosho federal constituency in Lagos, Thursday told the Speaker of the house that there are no more cases of COVID-19 in the country and abroad.

He said there have not been cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria and overseas within the past two months, and as such, the wearing of face masks in the chamber should be stopped.

However, Adebanjo’s claim contradicts statistics from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) which has been reporting COVID cases on a daily basis.

“I want to inform the national assembly, especially the house of representatives, concerning the masking of our faces coming to the chamber,” the lawmaker who was not wearing a face mask said.

“For the past two months, I have not heard of any case of COVID in Nigeria or abroad. The masking has been very painful and the earlier the better we relax the rule that compulsorily asks honourable members to wear the mask. If you look around you can see how many people are wearing the mask.

“It affects our respiratory system and our lungs. So there is no more COVID-19 in Nigeria, there is no more COVID-19 abroad.”

Responding, Idris Wase, deputy speaker who presided over the plenary, said it is not the national assembly that should determine when to abrogate the COVID protocol.

“I want to advise, as legislators we are supposed to be compliant with rules, the constitution, the acts and we have the NCDC for regulating our affairs and conduct,” he said.

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“So it is not for the speaker to rule on their duty that has been assigned to them duly by the act of the national assembly. I want to beg that we should continue to comply with the regulations set for our country and the world.

“We note your concern. As you were speaking, I didn’t see you with the mask. I’m grateful that you have now worn the mask. Your point of order is noted.”

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COVID-19 Pandemic To End In 2022, WHO Predicts

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World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, has expressed optimism that the COVID-19 pandemic will end in 2022.

Ghebreyesus said at a press briefing on Wednesday that it was two years ago, as people gathered for New Year’s Eve celebrations, that a new global threat emerged.

Since then, 1.8 million deaths were recorded in 2020 and 3.5 million in 2021, but the actual number is much higher. There are also millions of people dealing with long-term consequences from the virus.

Right now, Delta and Omicron are driving up cases to record numbers, leading to spikes in hospitalisation and deaths.

Ghebreyesus said he was “highly concerned” that the more transmissible Omicron, circulating at the same time as Delta, is leading to “a tsunami of cases.”

Earlier in 2020, during meetings of the world’s biggest economies, the G7 and G20, WHO challenged leaders to vaccinate 40 per cent of their populations by the end of 2021 and 70 per cent by the middle of 2022.

With only a couple of days left in the year, 92 out of 194 Member States missed the target.

He attributed this to low-income countries receiving a limited supply for most of the year and then subsequent vaccines arriving close to expiry, without key parts, like syringes.

“Forty per cent was doable. It’s not only a moral shame, it cost lives and provided the virus with opportunities to circulate unchecked and mutate,” he said.

WHO chief warned that boosters in rich countries could cause low-income countries to again fall short and called on leaders of wealthy countries and manufacturers to work together to reach the 70 per cent goal by July.

“This is the time to rise above short-term nationalism and protect populations and economies against future variants by ending global vaccine inequity.

“We have 185 days to the finish line of achieving 70 per cent by the start of July 2022. And the clock starts now,” he said

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Nigeria Records 1,547 New COVID-19 Infections

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Nigeria recorded 1,547 cases of COVID-19 infections on Sunday bringing the country’s total to 237,561 since the outbreak of the virus on Feb. 27, 2020.

The virus has also taken 3,022 lives in Nigeria so far.

Nigeria has treated and discharged 212,550 of those infected. 193 of them were discharged from hospitals on Sunday.

The National Centre for Disease Control stated on Monday that Sunday’s infections were recorded in nine states and the FCT.

FCT took over the lead from Lagos State on Sunday as it recorded 806 infections compared to 401 recorded by the latter.

Borno had 166 infections, Oyo State had 78 infections, Ogun State had 47, and Osun State had 30, while Ekiti State and Katsina State had seven infections each.

Kano State had four new infections, while Jigawa had one.

Nigeria has also taken 3,751,696 samples since the outbreak of the virus.

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Omicron Variant: Global COVID-19 Cases Rise 13% In One Week

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One month after the first COVID-19 Omicron variant was first reported in South Africa, cases have surged worldwide despite restrictions and vaccines though some nations haven’t reported drastic increases.

In one week, infections rose 13% with 5,145,488 for a total of 280,159,360 so far Sunday with any nations not reporting data on the day after Christmas. COVID-19 Deaths actually went down 10% or 43,144 for a toll of 5,415,980, according to Worldometers.info tracking.

Several nations set daily cases records in the past few days. On Saturday, France reported 104,611 cases. On Friday, marks were set in Britain at 122,186 and Italy 50,599 with those nations not reporting data on Christmas Day.

Canada set a national record with 21,493 and then reported 11,306 Friday and 2,458 Saturday. Australia’s record was 9,947 Saturday.

Worldwide COVID-19 cases hit a record 982,822 Thursday. On Saturday there was a total of 521,981 on Christmas Day.

In the United States, 291,671 cases Monday were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is the most since the record 294,015 Jan, 8. The most recent infections are 243,817 posted on Thursday. The CDC lists the total as 51,574,787. Johns Hopkins lists 52,175,680and Worldometers.info at 53,121,847. They all lead the world.

The U.S. also has the most deaths, 837,779, according to Worldometers.info.

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Israeli Hospital To Give Fourth COVID-19 Vaccine Shot In Trial

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A major Israeli hospital will begin administering a fourth COVID-19 vaccine shot to 150 staff on Monday in a trial aimed at gauging whether a second booster is necessary nationwide, the facility said on Sunday.

Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv said its trial would shed light on the efficacy of a fourth dose and help decision-makers set health policy in Israel and abroad.

Israel has reported 1,118 confirmed cases of the fast-spreading Omicron coronavirus variant, with the number of people infected by it doubling every two days.

A Health Ministry panel of experts has recommended offering a fourth dose of the Pfizer /BioNTech vaccine to Israelis aged 60 and over who received a booster shot at least four months ago.

But final approval by the ministry’s director-general is still pending amid public debate as to whether sufficient scientific information is available to justify a new booster drive.

Sheba Medical Center did not say how long its trial would last.

“We will examine the fourth dose’s effect on the level of antibodies and morbidity and we will gauge its safety,” it quoted Gili Regev-Yochay, the study’s director, as saying. “We will understand whether it is worthwhile to administer a fourth shot, and to whom.”

The 150 Sheba medical workers taking part in the trial, which the hospital said had received Health Ministry approval, got booster shots no later than Aug 20.

Separately, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s office said he tested negative on Sunday for COVID-19 after his 14-year-old daughter was infected. It said he would self-isolate.

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COVID-19: 8,953 Doses Of Pfizer Booster Vaccine Administered In Lagos

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The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, says the state has administered 8,953 doses of Pfizer booster COVID-19 vaccine.

Abayomi disclosed this through his official Instagram account @profakinabayomi, while giving the state’s Vaccination Update for Dec. 24.

He said that 2,049,512 doses of AstraZeneca and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines had been administered in Lagos. Abayomi noted that 3.15 per cent of the targeted population had received two doses of the vaccines.

According to him, 974,928 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine were administered as the first dose, while 520,622 of the vaccine were administered as the second dose.

The commissioner noted that for the Moderna vaccine, 317, 784 were administered as the first dose, while 236, 178 were administered for the second dose.

He said that 13,895,199 doses of vaccines need to be administered for the state to achieve its herd immunity target.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that concerns over the emergence of the Omicron COVID-19 variant led many countries to expand their COVID-19 booster programmes.

The Federal Government on Dec. 3 approved the commencement of the administration of COVID-19 booster doses across the country from Dec. 10.

The government through its agency in charge of vaccination programmes, the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), said that the booster dose gives greater protection against COVID-19 infection.

It said that the booster dose should be administered to Nigerians who have completed the two doses of Astrazeneca, Moderna or Pfizer Bio-N-Tech or one dose of Johnson and Johnson vaccines.

According to the government, Pfizer Bio-N-Tech or Moderna vaccines (mRNA Vaccines) are to be used as booster doses regardless of the type of vaccine an individual took as first and second doses.

However, the Lagos State Government on Dec. 22, announced the non-availability of the Moderna vaccine at all vaccination centres in the state.

The Moderna vaccine scarcity affected individuals that were to take the vaccine as a second dose and those interested in the vaccine as a booster dose.

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Lagos Leads With 833 COVID-19 Infections, As Nigeria Records 1356 New Cases

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Nigeria recorded 1,356 COVID-19 infections in 11 states and the Federal Capital Territory on Friday.

Friday’s new infections brought the country’s tally to 234,709.

The country also recorded two related deaths on Friday raising the mortality figure from 2,991 on Thursday to 2,993, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) stated on Saturday.

It stated that Lagos State maintained its lead on the table with 833 cases, down from 845 cases it recorded on Thursday.

Rivers followed with 119 cases, Kwara (107), FCT (103), Edo (97), Kano (29), Imo (25), Delta (19), Plateau (14), Borno (10), Gombe (8) and Bauchi (3).

The NCDC noted that the number of active cases increased from 16,569 on Thursday to 19,479 cases on Friday.

Those treated and discharged number 212,237, as the FCT reported a backlog of 140 discharges and 120 community discharges for Dec. 24.

According to the NCDC, Nigeria has tested 3,751,696 samples since the virus was announced on Feb. 27, 2020.

In the out-going week, Nigeria recorded 10,856 COVID-19 infections cumulatively including 45 Omicron variant cases as of Dec. 20.

On the African continent, South Africa and Botswana are ahead of Nigeria in the Omicron variant infection recording 1,296 and 291 cases respectively.

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No Death From COVID-19 Omicron Variant In Nigeria – NCDC

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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, (NCDC), says no person in Nigeria has died of COVID-19 with the B.1.1.529 SARS-CoV-2 lineage, the Omicron variant, in the country, as the variant surges across the country.

The NCDC Director-General, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, disclosed this to newsmen on Friday in Abuja.

Data from the African Union (AU) shows that the Omicron COVID-19 variant is spreading rapidly across the African continent.

AU’s Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said as of Thursday, that 22 countries have reported the presence of the Omicron variant.

“We can see clearly that Omicron is spreading very quickly,” said John Nkengasong of the CDC.

Around a month after South Africa first discovered the more infectious variant, it has now been detected as far as Egypt, Togo, Morocco, Kenya, Mauritius and Burkina Faso.

Adetifa noted that Omicron has raised the number of confirmed cases in the country to 500 per cent, and now has become the dominant variants in the country.

The NCDC boss said that the country has now identified a further 45 cases of the omicron variant, bringing the total number of confirmed infections to 51.

He added that the 45 additional omicron variants were not cases from travel history, rather they are in-country, which suggests that the country is already experiencing a community transmission.

He said that the six earlier detected Omicron cases were detected in persons with recent travel history to South Africa.

Adetifa stressed that it was important for Nigerians to maintain physical distance and avoid contact with anyone showing symptoms of respiratory illness.

“We are counting on you to #CelebrateResponsibly and #TakeResponsibility to keep yourself and your loved ones safe from COVID-19,” he urged.

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