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This was contained in the data released by the NCDC in the early hours of Saturday on the pandemic in the country

Plastic-i is an idea to help tackle marine pollution by combining satellite data with machine learning to create an open-source map of floating pollution, updated daily.

The data was released by the public health agency after the Results Dissemination Meeting on Friday in Abuja.

The PSC Chair on COVID-19 and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, issued the protocol.

The challenge, which will reach millions of Nigerians on social media platforms, kicks off on the 15th of October and will run through till the 31st of October 2021.

She made the call at the graduation ceremony of her Future Assured Youth Education Empowerment Program (FA-YEEP) batch two in Yola, Adamawa State, on Thursday 14th October 2021.

This, according to the international organisation, indicates a downward trend in the fight against infectious diseases.

A statement on Friday by Mr Abdulkadir Ibrahim, the Information Officer, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) North East Zonal office, said the distribution was performed by the Director-General of NEMA, Alhaji Mustafa Ahmed.

UNICEF’s Chief of Field Office, Bauchi, Mr Tushar Rane, stated this on Friday at a news conference organised to commemorate the 2021 Global Hand Washing Day (GHWD), in Bauchi.

The roundtable, which was attended by two reputable medical professionals from Nigeria and Ghana, addressed local metastatic breast cancer incidence, how it is diagnosed, who is at risk, steps to take to fight breast cancer and set the right expectation, as well as the latest treatment advances.

The NCDC made this known via its website on Friday morning.

The NCC thus confirmed that its readiness to begin the full deployment of the 5G technology was at 97 per cent.

The Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, said this on Thursday.

WHO’s 2021 Global TB report highlighted how years of global progress in tackling the disease had been “reversed” since the pandemic overwhelmed health care systems in 2020, preventing vulnerable people from seeking help.

The WHO puts the number of all infections on the continent at 59 million, over seven times more than the eight million reported cases.

The U.S. shipment arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja on October 14.  The shipment will bring the total number of U.S.-bilaterally donated doses to Nigeria to over 7.5 million. The U.S. also contributed to the first multilateral donation of AstraZeneca vaccine in March 2021. Overall, COVAX has provided Nigeria with over 10 million doses to date.

For the past seven decades, the cells of Lacks, who died of cervical cancer, have saved countless lives.

The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Thursday morning in its update on the pandemic.

It made this known on its official website on Wednesday morning, adding that the fatality figure remained at 2,756.

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, revealed this on Tuesday at a press briefing in Ikeja.