Britain has the world’s fifth worst official death toll from COVID-19 at over 78,000, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson has shuttered the economy and rushed out vaccines faster than its neighbours in a bid to stem the pandemic.
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The Federal Government through the Minister of Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, had issued the order, forcing millions of Nigerians to storm the offices of the Nigeria Identity Management Commission for NIN registration.
This makes it the third consecutive day that the country will be recording new highest single-day infection records.
The new lockdown was due to surging infections in the country caused by a more contagious variant of the novel coronavirus.
The NCDC disclosed this via its verified website late on Sunday.
The 21-year-old has been sidelined since last November after dislocating his shoulder while representing Nigeria in the Africa Cup of Nations.
This was contained in a statement by the British High Commission in Lagos on Thursday.
The county’s Department of Public Health reported 13,661 new COVID-19 infections and 73 more deaths in a daily release, pushing its cumulative cases up to 733,325 with 9,555 related deaths.
What we know is that human beings are capable of new discoveries in the face of pain, suffering and tragedy. And so it has been with the year 2020. So, what do we hold on to? Hope, I guess, the oxygen of human existence
Ghebreyesus gave the warning in a video released to mark the first-ever International Day of Epidemic Preparedness on Sunday.
Ibrahim, a senior judge, headed the National Election Authority since 2017, overseeing Egypt’s presidential and parliamentary elections.
Cissé was transferred from Niamey, Niger, for specialised treatment in France.
Rashford was rewarded in October for services to vulnerable children in the UK during the coronavirus pandemic.
On Thursday, Christmas Eve, 192,081 new infections and 2,899 deaths with a confirmed coronavirus infection were recorded within one day, according to data from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore on Friday.
Boss Mustapha, the chairman of the PTF and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, issued the warning while speaking at the national briefing on Thursday in Abuja.
However, during deliberations, the legislators reversed the impeachment of the deputy leader, Mamman, because she was in isolation, recovering from a coronavirus (COVID-19) infection.
Bello announced the new measures following the emergence of the FCT as one of the three epicentres of the pandemic in Nigeria.
The Spiritual Leader of the INRI Evangelical Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, revealed this on Wednesday when he spoke with newsmen on what to expect in 2021 in his church at Oke-Afa, Lagos State.
Adams, however, said the restructuring of the country was non-negotiable.
Governor Kayode Fayemi, who reeled out the new guidelines to curb the second wave of COVID-19 in a state broadcast on Wednesday evening, said the step became necessary to ensure that the situation does not snowball out of control.