The PUNCH Media Foundation in partnership with PUNCH Nigeria Limited organized an upskilling training, PUNCH Refresher Training, for the PUNCH editorial team to improve their reportorial skills from 21st June to 1st July 2021 in Lagos and Abuja. The PUNCH…
The advent of the ‘new normal’ occasioned by the COVID 19 pandemic set the stage for the second in the series of the PUNCH Webinar Series, a virtual event organised by the PUNCH Media Foundation. The edition tagged “Girl Child…
The PUNCH Media Foundation under the aegis of PUNCH Newspapers joined the global community to commemorate the 2021 World Blood Donor Day with a virtual event – PUNCH Webinar Series – held on Monday, 14th June 2021 via Zoom and…
The Lagos State Government has announced the availability of the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines at the designated public and private vaccination centres in the state. This was disclosed by the Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, through his official…
Scientists in South Africa have detected 32 COVID-19 mutations in a 36-year-old woman with advanced HIV. The scientists disclosed their findings in a study published as a pre-print on medRxiv on Thursday. The scientists also reported that the woman had…
Dr. Kingsley Amibor is a consultant clinical pharmacist and chairman of Association of Hospital and Administrative Pharmacists of Nigeria. In this interview with ADEBAYO FOLORUNSH FRANCIS, he says the use of Ivermectin in the management of COVID-19 should not be…
A lecturer and healthcare research scientist in the Department of Microbiology, Adeleke University, Ede, Osun State, Dr. Elijah Kolawole tells YUSUFF MOSHOOD why inadequate evidence from clinical trials on using Ivermectin for COVID-19 treatment makes their safety and efficacy contentious. As a researcher, you…
The World Health Organisation says the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that other sectors are crucial to preparing for health pandemics. It noted that the viral pandemic has confirmed that pandemic preparedness is not a job for only the health sector.…
The Minister of State for Health, Dr. Olorunnimbe Mamora, says the Federal Government was renewing its focus on discouraging the outflow of Nigerian health workers, especially physicians, overseas. Mamora disclosed this at the inauguration of the annex of the Federal…
The novel coronavirus has killed at least 3,723,381 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1000 GMT Sunday. At least 172,873,850 cases of coronavirus have been…