Brazil on Friday claimed the unenviable position of having the second-highest coronavirus death toll worldwide behind the United States, where several states have posted record daily case tallies, signaling the crisis is far from over. Brazil’s health ministry recorded 909 deaths in the past 24 hours, putting the total at 41,828 — meaning the country of 212 million people has Read More
Again, the Kogi state government has revealed that at no time did anyone test positive for novel Coronavirus. This time, the state commissioner for health, Dr Saka Haruna Audu, took time out to give details of how Kogi has remained without any Covid-19 case since the pandemic birth in Nigeria. Read the commissioner’s full text below; THE PURPORTED COVID-19 CASES Read More
US Democratic candidate Joe Biden has flatly denied sexually assaulting a former staff assistant, Tara Reade, nearly 30 years ago. In a statement released before a TV interview on Friday, he said of the allegations: “They aren’t true. This never happened.” He asked for a search of the Senate archives for any record of a complaint Ms Reade allegedly filed Read More
More than 200,000 people worldwide have now died with the coronavirus, figures from Johns Hopkins University show. There are more than 2.8 million confirmed cases of Covid-19, according to the tally. It comes after the number of fatalities in the US passed 50,000, as Americans endure the world’s deadliest outbreak. On 11 January, Chinese state media reported the first known Read More
For the first time since he was confirmed Covid-19 postive, Kaduna state Governor Nasir El-Rufai has made public comment. El-Rufai who is still recovering from isolation, held a virtual meeting with members of the State Executive Council. Shortly after the meeting, Wednesday afternoon, the governor took to his twitter handle and said, “Earlier Wednesday 10am-2pm, I took few hours during Read More
The Registrar General of Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) Abubakar Garba has said no document or life was lost to the fire which gutted part of the seven-storey building Headquarters of the organisation in Abuja on Wednesday. While confirming the incident, Garba told the News Agency of Nigeria that the fire resulted from power surge caused by the outer units of Read More
US President Donald Trump has said he is going to halt funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) because it has “failed in its basic duty” in its response to the coronavirus outbreak. He accused the UN agency of mismanaging and covering up the spread of the virus after it emerged in China, and said it must be held accountable. Read More
About 1.93 million people around the world have now been confirmed to have the new coronavirus, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. More than 120,000 have died, while nearly 450,000 have recovered. Meanwhile, France officially registered more than 15,000 deaths from coronavirus infections, becoming the fourth country to go beyond that threshold after Italy, Spain and the United Read More
Coronavirus deaths in the UK on Tuesday pushed past the 12,000 barrier after 778 more people lost their lives to the killer disease. Positive Covid-19 cases also rose to 93,873 from 88,621 yesterday as Britain continues its fourth week of lockdown. The Department of Health today confirmed a total of 12,107 people have died from the bug in hospital – Read More
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it is working with affected countries on strategies for gradually and safely easing stay-at-home restrictions occasioned by Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, stated this at a news conference in Geneva, as posted on the agency’s twitter at @WHO. Ghebreyesus said the agency would consider important factors while working with affected Read More
Katsina state Governor Aminu Masari has declared a total lockdown of Daura, one of the bubbling communities in the state following confirmation that the wife and two children of late doctor have tested positive. Daura is the hometown of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari. Governor Masari who revealed this said already a total of 23 samples were sent for testing after Read More
Reports in various quarters indicate that six persons with coronavirus have escaped from isolation centre in Ejigbo, Osun state. Already, a special manhurt has been reportedly established by the state government to in a bid to re-capture the fleeing patients. The escaped six persons according to a signed statement belong to a cluster of COVID-19 cases who returned to their hometown, Read More
UN chief Antonio Guterres renewed his call for a global ceasefire, urging all parties to conflict to lay down arms and allow war-torn countries to combat the coronavirus pandemic. “The worst is yet to come,” Guterres said on Friday, referring to countries such as Syria, Libya and Yemen. “The COVID-19 storm is now coming to all these theatres of conflict.” Read More
Just as his Kaduna and Bauchi counterparts, Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state has tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19). Makinde, head of the Oyo COVID-19 task force, who confirmed this via his twitter handle @seyiamakinde, on Monday evening said, “I just received my COVID-19 confirmation test result. It is POSITIVE. I am asymptomatic and will continue to self-isolate. “I have Read More
The Comptroller-General of Immigration, Muhammed Babandede, has revealed that he has tested positive for COVID-19. Babandede who revealed this Sunday morning said, “Today, I tested positive for COVID-19. I have been on self-isolation since my return from UK on Sunday 22nd of this month with British Airways in Lagos. “I urge my loved ones, Immigration Officers and Nigerians to pray Read More
Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa state, his deputy Dr Emmanuel Akabe have tested negative for the Coronavirus. The deputy governor who is the chairman of the state Quick Response Committee said, “Governor Abdullahi Sule, I and the man in isolation at Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital, (DASH) in Lafia have all given our samples in Lafia. It was taken for test at Read More
Nollywood actor, Alkali Matt, popularly known as Dareng, has died while he was filming on set on March 24, 2020. But controversial journalist, Kemi Olunloyo, said the actor died after he had contact with someone who tested positive for Coronavirus at the AMVCA 7. She wrote: “#Breaking, Dareng died today on the set of his movie. He was EXPOSED to Read More
The Bayelsa state government has asked civil servants on grade level 1-12 to stay at home for two weeks with effect from Thursday, March 26. It explained that only those on essential services such as medical and health workers, fire service personnel, cleaners and other related personnel were exempted from the temporary restriction. The Permanent Secretary in the state Ministry of Read More
Twenty four hours after the dreaded COVID-19 claimed the life of a former Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPC) top shot, Mr. Suleiman Achimugu, as its first victim in Nigeria, Bauchi state Governor Bala Mohammed has been confirmed positive. The confirmation which was announced Tuesday came amidst speculations that Chief of Staff to the President Abba Kyari also tested positive to the Read More
Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna state has ordered civil servants on level 12 and below to stay at home from Tuesday, while markets will only be opened to food and medicine sellers to curb the spread of Coronavirus in the state. The governor, who decried religious bodies and organisations that flouted government’s order not to congregate more than 50 people, Read More
A Chinese tourist has died in France after contracting the new coronavirus – the first fatality from the disease outside Asia. The victim was an 80-year-old man from China’s Hubei province, according to French Health Minister Agnès Buzyn. He arrived in France on 16 January and was placed in quarantine in hospital in Paris on 25 January, she said. Only Read More
Egypt on Friday confirmed a case of Coronavirus in its territory,the first in Africa since the deadly virus began ravaging China in December. But the victim is not Egyptian, the ministry of health said in Cairo. The ministry did not disclose the nationality of the person who is quarantined in hospital. It merely said that it “has taken preventative measures Read More
New signing Odion Ighalo will not travel to Manchester United’s training camp in Spain as it is not guaranteed he would clear UK immigration on his return should border restrictions tighten on travellers who have been in China within past 14 days following the coronavirus outbreak. Ighalo, who moved to Old Trafford from Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua on Deadline Day, Read More
Following the outbreak of the Coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the world is grappling with ways of curtailing its spread. SAMSON BENJAMIN in this report examines the measures so far taken by Nigeria to prevent the virus from entering her borders given the nation’s weak public health system The virus According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), corona Read More
The nationwide death toll in China’s coronavirus outbreak has risen to 213, with nearly 2,000 new cases confirmed, the National Health Commission said on Friday. In its daily update, the commission said 43 new deaths had occurred as a result of the virus, all but one of them in hardest-hit Hubei province where the virus first emerged. The latest numbers Read More
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