Mr. Bill Gates has through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation committed at least $1.75 billion to the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this interview with selected journalists from across Africa, the billionaire, who stepped down as chairman…
11,000 new infections in one week New variants not cause of rising cases- Experts COVID-19 cases and deaths have continued to increase across the country since the beginning of the year, Daily Trust investigations have shown. Data obtained from the Nigeria Centre…
The Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, on Monday, raised the alarm that Nigeria had reached a critical level where hospital capacity could no longer cope with more serious COVID-19 cases. According to him, health workers may…
The Daily Trust Foundation, with support from MacArthur Foundation, has trained about thirty (30) journalists on how to use the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and other global data to do COVID-19 stories. The four-day workshop held on October…
A total 181 out of 441 students and staff members of an undisclosed private boarding school located in a suburb of Lekki have tested positive for COVID-19.
As some states recalled students of primary and secondary schools back to classes, the federal government on Monday called for more vigilance to avert a possible resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic.
From Covid-19 deniers, to medical practitioners, Daily Trust Saturday spoke to a wide array of survivors who shared personal stories detailing their fight with the virus, and their road to survival. Read more :
Alexandre Capron expected to find a sinister, well-funded organization when he began investigating a COVID-19 disinformation campaign that had captured the attention of hundreds of thousands of people in Africa and Western Europe. Newsfeed posts from five popular Facebook pages…
From recording hundreds of COVID-19-related deaths within five weeks, Kano State, with its about 20 million population, posted a total of eleven new cases from June 21-27, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). The progressive drop in…
As stakeholders in the nation’s economic landscape continue to recount the bitter experiences of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their operations, the gradual but steady policy measures by the federal government to re-open the economy has been eliciting…
