New Zealand’s biggest city, Auckland, will stay under coronavirus lockdown until Sept. 21 after 33 new cases were recorded in the area in the past day, the prime minister said on Monday. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said three clusters were continuing to produce cases of community transmission in Auckland, compelling the extension of the hard…
A nationwide vaccination campaign week starts in Germany on Monday in an attempt to speed up the rate of coronavirus vaccinations ahead of winter. In addition to the usual places where vaccines are offered anyone can get vaccinated without an appointment and free of charge at locations across the country, for example in some libraries,…
North Korea said Monday it had test-fired a new type of long-range cruise missile over the weekend. The tests took place on Saturday and Sunday after two years of research, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). KCNA called it a “strategic weapon of great significance.” Observers saw this as an indication the…
A new YouGov poll on Monday revealed that two-thirds of German employees who have been working from home due to the coronavirus crisis want to keep doing so after the pandemic. Energy supplier Eon, which commissioned the survey, said the popularity of working from within your own four walls has increased in the wake of…
The European Union (EU) on Monday lunched its ‘Youth Sounding Board’ (YSB) in Nigeria with 25 youth drawn from the six geo-political zones in the country as board members. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja reports that, the EU-YSB, is a space created for young people to influence the EU’s development cooperation in…
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), says 1,692,315 eligible Nigerian have received two doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines. The Executive Director, NPHCDA, Dr Faisal Shuaib, disclosed this at the briefing of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19 on Monday, in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that this progress…
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Anambra says a lone accident at Uli, on the Ihiala-Onitsha expressway, has claimed the lives of a girl and a woman on Sunday night. The Sector Commander of the Corps, Mr Adeoye Irelewuyi, confirmed the accident Irelewuyi said the driver of the affected Nissan Caravan commercial bus with…
China issued a total of 2.7 billion organic product labels last year, the country’s top market watchdog said Monday. The country sold 999,000 tonnes of organic products in 2020, with sales standing at 80.43 billion yuan (about 12.47 billion U.S. dollars), according to the State Administration for Market Regulation. To date, China has granted 14,000…
The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed eight persons on Sunday, as the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), reported 365 additional new cases in eight states of the federation. The public health agency, however, noted that the new cases recorded represented a fall from the 547 cases reported on Saturday. The NCDC, which confirmed the infections…
