Coronavirus
Headlines that Covid has re-emerged in Nigeria’s Benue state misleading, health officials say
A national newspaper reported that 25 new cases had been confirmed in the north-central state. This is incorrect, health officials said.
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Do more than half of Nigerians have Covid-19 antibodies, as newspaper claimed? Study didn’t quite say that
An analysis by Nigeria’s Guardian newspaper said over 50% of the country’s people have been exposed to the Covid-19 virus and survived.
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100 million people with persistent coronavirus symptoms? Two ‘long Covid’ stats, investigated
The term “long Covid” is by now familiar for the symptoms many suffer months after infection with Covid-19.