The numbers brought the overall caseload to over 22 million and the death toll to 242,362 in the country reeling under the second wave of the pandemic, data released by the federal health ministry showed.
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The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Saturday.
The World Health Organisation revealed this in its message to mark this year’s World Malaria day.
The president made the call at a virtual meeting with the U.S. Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, on Tuesday in Abuja.
Muhammad Shafiq, WHO Emergency Manager, Health Emergencies Programme, who disclosed this on Monday, said the UN Agency and the Yobe State Government have conducted COVID-19 House-to-House risk communication awareness to over 90,000 residents of the state.
The initiative is to be launched on World Malaria Day on April 25.
Iyabo Fakunle-Okieimen, the state Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources, said this in a statement issued in Ado Ekiti on Sunday.
This, it said, could happen even after the country had been certified free of polio by the World Health Organisation (WHO), hence the need for the media to increase awareness for persons in the North-east to embrace routine immunisation.
The NSACCKD, TWG meeting, which was held via zoom in Niger State, was coordinated by the State Ministry of Health and State Primary Health Care Development Agency with the support of the Partnership For Advocacy In Child and Family Health At Scale through Centre for Communication and Reproductive Health, Bida Niger State, expressed fear that there will be likelihood of increased death of under-5.
In a newspaper article, the leaders, including the German chancellor and French president, said Covid posed the biggest challenge since World War Two.
The State Government also reiterated that only persons who fit into Phase one of the vaccination exercise which include; healthcare workers, COVID-19 response team (RRT), ports of entry staff, laboratory network, judiciary, military, police, other security agencies, petrol station workers, teachers, press, other frontline workers and persons of age 70 years above will be attended to at the vaccination sites as from Monday.
The agency said the warning was imperative to ensure people did not risk being vaccinated with fake Astrazeneca vaccine.
Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, said vaccination can only be obtained at any of the 88 accredited facilities listed.
The WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, announced this at the bi-weekly news briefing on COVID-19 at WHO headquarters in Geneva.
WHO, in a statement posted on its website on Tuesday, stated that just like the way people react to other vaccines or drugs, they could also react to COVID-19 vaccine.
The World Health Organisation and the European Medicines Agency say there is no indication of a link between the vaccine and reports of blood clots.
Akeredolu gave the assurance on Wednesday in Akure during the inauguration of COVID-19 vaccination in the state.
Sanwo-Olu said a steering committee set up for the vaccine administration was in its final stage of preparation for the deployment of the vaccine, confirming that the State had a clear-cut strategy for the vaccine distribution.
The President and his Deputy received the vaccine following the launch of the vaccination exercise in the country with frontline health workers.
“I think it will be very premature and unrealistic to think that we are going to finish with this virus by the end of the year. What we can finish with – if we are smart – is hospitalisations, deaths and the tragedy associated with this pandemic,” Michael Ryan, Director of WHO’s health emergencies programme, said at a news conference on Tuesday.