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THE United States of America recently announced job openings for Hausa and Yoruba teachers.

The Lancet international medical journal published a peer-reviewed late-stage trial results that stated Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine was almost 92% effective in fighting COVID-19.

Britain begins a door-to-door COVID-19 testing of 80,000 people on Tuesday in a bid to stem the spread of a new highly infectious so-called South African variant of the novel coronavirus.

Two people in southern England have tested positive for the South African variant of the coronavirus without having any links to people who have travelled recently, prompting “surge testing” to contain the outbreak.

South Africa has received the first batch of Coronavirus vaccines on Monday.

Nigeria evacuated hundreds of its citizens from Saudi Arabia on Thursday after they overstayed their visas and were left stranded, two Reuters witnesses said.

Germany is preparing entry bans for travellers from Britain, Portugal, Brazil and South Africa to limit the spread of the more contagious variants of the coronavirus raging in these countries, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said on Thursday.

Moderna Inc said on Monday it believes its COVID-19 vaccine protects against new variants found in Britain and South Africa, although it will test a new booster shot aimed at the South African variant after concluding the antibody response could be diminished.

Bereaved relatives of the dead expressed anger at Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s handling of the Coronavirus crisis, as the United Kingdom’s COVID-19 death toll approaches 100,000.

Recording Academy, Organisers of the Grammy Awards, has pledged to support the administration of Joe Biden, the newly-elected President of the United States of America and his vice, Kamala Harris, in rebuilding and revitalising the U.S. creative