COVID-19

The world's giant pharmaceutical company, Pfizer has come out with 95% trial of COVID-19 vaccine success rate and two months of safety data, paving the way for the drugmaker to apply for an emergency U.S. authorisation within days, it said on Wednesday.

Weekly coronavirus deaths have climbed by 1,937 in England and Wales - a 40% increase on the previous rise and the second week in a row that the total has reached four figures, according to Sky News report.

The doctors' union in Kenya has threatened strike action after the death of four colleagues within a 24-hour period, although it is unclear if they had contact with coronavirus patients.

The NYSC Coordinator in Kano State, Hajiya Aisha Tata, has revealed that two new corps members out of the 826 posted to the state have tested positive for COVID-19.

NIGERIA Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 152 new cases of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, with Lagos topping the chart with 136 cases.

The Super Eagles of Nigeria will be facing Sierra Leone on Friday, but will need to submit at least 15 players to escape sanction from the African football governing body, Confederation Africaine de Football, CAF.

Lagos State Government has confirmed positive COVID-19 cases in a secondary boarding school on the Mainland.

France’s daily COVID-19 death toll spiked by 854 on Tuesday, an increase unseen since April 15, while the number of people hospitalised for the disease went up by more than a 1,000 for the fifth time in nine days.

The number of new COVID-19 cases in the United States hit another record high last week, rising 18% to more than 575,000, while deaths inched up 3%, according to a Reuters analysis of state and county reports.

Israel began human trials on Sunday for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate which, if successful, could be ready for the general public by next September.