Medical experts have warned that Nigeria is at risk of yearly, multiple, and concurrent disease outbreaks due to tropical climate, population density and poor socio-economic factors. They, however, said the country is yet to see the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The medical experts brainstormed on lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and other disease outbreaks at the maiden edition of the Nigerian Conference of Applied and Field Epidemiology (NiCAFE). The conference, which was held virtually, was organised by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in collaboration with partners from July 26 to 28, 2021. x
The theme of this year’s NiCAFE conference was “Building back better: COVID-19 and other disease outbreaks”.
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Gunmen kill three, abduct medical doctor in Oyo
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UNKNOWN gunmen have reportedly kidnapped a medical doctor, Akindele John Kayode, at one Health Care Center, Tapa, in Ibarapa North Local Government.
The doctor was reportedly abducted around 11 pm on Saturday.
This happened just a few hours after some bandits killed a Chief Executive Officer of an independent marketer and his two young cousins in Idere.
It was gathered that the CEO of the filling station and his cousins were killed by unknown gunmen, around 7pm on Saturday, January 2nd, in Idere, Ibarapa Central Local Government.