Nigeria’s Center for Disease Control says 60 people who were evacuated from Ukraine tested positive for the coronavirus. These new numbers push the daily infections to 118. 
Earlier, Nigeria reported only two new infections this week, the lowest daily figure ever since the pandemic’s beginning.
Africa’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the continent’s top public health agency, signed a memorandum of understanding with drug makers Pfizer to bring supplies of the firm’s Paxlovid antiviral COVID-19 pills to the continent.
On Monday, Moderna signed a similar memorandum of understanding with Kenya’s government for its first mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility in Africa.
Washington, D.C. lifted its indoor mask mandates for schools, giving the school system, private schools, and day-care centers the option to require masks on their campus.
The D.C. Public School Chancellor said that masks are still required at its schools, and he would be speaking with the unions and community about new health guidance.
New research in a soon-to-be-published study examined the spillover of the coronavirus from humans into wild white-tailed deer.
Researchers in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania swabbed the noses of 93 dead deer across the state, finding that a fifth of those animals tested positive for the coronavirus.
Researchers note the deer didn’t die from COVID but are deer that died with COVID in their system. Scientists are analyzing the data and researching if this could have potential risks for humans. #CGTNAmerica
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