Tag: New COVID-19 variant

New COVID-19 variant: Ayade suspends 2021 Carnival Calabar

Nov 29, 2021

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Olaotan Falade

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Cross River State governor, Sir Ben Ayade, has suspended the 2021 Calabar Carnival. Announcing the suspension of the 2021 Carnival at State Executive Council Chamber, attended by carnival band leaders, Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Eteng Jones Williams, members of the state Executive Council, local government chairman from the 18 Council areas of…
WHO renames new COVID-19 variant

Nov 27, 2021

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Olaotan Falade

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The World Health Organization on Friday declared the recently-discovered B.1.1.529 strain of Covid-19 to be a variant of concern, renaming it Omicron.