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Governor Babajide Sanwoolu has ordered that workers on levels 1-12 in the Lagos State Public Service should not go to work for the next 14 days. He is also appealing to the private sector to follow suit. The State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who gave the order during a live broadcast on Sunday, said the directive […]
Continue ReadingThe Federal Ministry of Health in Nigeria has announced ten new cases of Coronavirus confirmation in the country. Three persons tested positive to the virus in Abuja while seven tested positive in Lagos. This brings the total number of persons with the virus in Nigeria to 22. Two patients have been treated and discharged. Nine […]
Continue ReadingNational Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has told Nigerians to desist from self-medication over the coronavirus as the World Health Organisation (WHO) has not approved chloroquine for the management of coronavirus. NCDC said Nigerians should desist from taking self-medication for treatment of coronavirus as it may cause harm or lead to death. The NCDC in […]
Continue ReadingLagos State government, on Friday, disclosed that following the announcement by President Donald Trump on Thursday that chloroquine can cure coronavirus, hospitals in the state has received patients suffering from chloroquine poisoning. This was just as the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) told Nigerians to desist from self-medication over the coronavirus as the World […]
Continue ReadingWorld Health Organisation representative in Russia, Melita Vujnovic, said WHO has received certification requests for 40 coronavirus tests, as 20 vaccines are being developed. Vujnovic made the statement in an interview with Sputnik on Friday. “As of this moment, the WHO has received 40 requests to consider and approve diagnostics tests, 20 vaccines are being […]
Continue ReadingIf you’ve been ordered to stay indoors and self-isolate amid the coronavirus outbreak, you could get pretty bored and lonely not being able to socialise – I mean, there’s only so much Netflix you can watch. So while you make one last dash to the supermarket to stock up on your supply of toilet paper […]
Continue ReadingThe US is fast-tracking the anti-malarial drug chloroquine for use as a treatment against the new coronavirus, President Donald Trump said Thursday. “We’re going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately, and that’s where the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has been so great,” Trump told reporters. “They’ve gone through the approval […]
Continue ReadingWorld Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, says there are now 633 confirmed cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Africa in 33 countries. The United Nations health agency disclosed this in its regional official twitter account @WHOAFRO. According to WHO, there have been 17 COVID-19-related deaths as at Thursday. In past 24 […]
Continue ReadingA 38-year-old driver, who tested positive for coronavirus, contracted the disease from an American national, the Ekiti State Government has said. The government in a statement by its Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr. Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, confirmed that the 27-year-old American, who was visiting Nigeria from Richmond, Virginia, United States, died after falling ill. […]
Continue ReadingThe Lagos state government is set to ask religious leaders in the state to suspend all religious gatherings. These include Sunday Services in churches and Friday Jummat services in the various mosques. The state Commissioner for Information, Gbenga Omotosho, made this known at a press briefing today March 18th. “We are all aware that the […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Federal Ministry of Health has announced five (5) new cases of coronavirus bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Nigeria so far to eight. All the five new cases had a travel history to the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US), according to Punch. We will feed you with the news […]
Continue ReadingNigerian government, has on Wednesday placed a travel ban on 13 high-risk Coronavirus countries. The banned countries are China, Italy, Iran, South Korea, Spain, Japan, France, Germany, Norway, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Netherlands, and Switzerland. Some of these banned countries have already been placed on total lock down by their own […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian, who returned from the United Kingdom last Friday, has tested positive for the new coronavirus, Lagos State Ministry of Health said on Tuesday. “She is clinically stable and is being treated at the Infectious Disease Hospital, Lagos,” Nigeria’s health minister Dr Osagie Ehanire said. Lagos State health ministry said the patient, a 30-year-old […]
Continue ReadingCover of Awake magazine 15 years ago The deadly Coronavirus or COVID-19 was predicted by an article published by the Jehovah’s Witness, a religious group, 15 years ago, in its magazine, Awake! But the world ignored the warning. According to the article “The Next Global Epidemic, WHEN?” published in the December 22, 2005, edition of […]
Continue ReadingThe head of the medical association in the northern Italian region of Varese, has died from coronavirus. Roberto Stella, 67, who was the president of the Medical Guild of Varese, died Tuesday night in Como, where he was hospitalized for respiratory failure due to coronavirus, Italy’s state-run ANSA reported. His death was confirmed in a […]
Continue ReadingA second patient has been cured of HIV after undergoing stem cell transplant treatment, doctors said Tuesday, after finding no trace of infection 30 months after he stopped antiviral treatment, doctors say. The so-called “London Patient”, a cancer sufferer originally from Venezuela, received cells from donors with a rare genetic mutation that prevents HIV from […]
Continue ReadingA 200-Level female student of the Department of Educational Management in Adekunle Ajasin University, Ayedun Temitope Patience, has reportedly died of Lassa fever infection. Patience died on Thursday about the time another student, a male, of the same institution, Olakunle Olayinka, was murdered in cold blood by suspected cultists. The former was said to have […]
Continue ReadingPhotos of a vegetable seller picking his wares from a dirty drainage to sell to unsuspecting buyers has emerged on Twitter. The vegetable seller, who sells his goods from a wheel barrow, had a minor accident and some of his vegetables fell into the gutter. Not willing to run at a loss, he bent and […]
Continue ReadingFirst Coronavirus death has occurred on US soil in Washington state, an official said on Saturday. United States health officials on Friday had reported a fourth case of novel Coronavirus of unknown origin, indicating the disease was spreading in the country. This is coming barely a week after President Donald Trump said America was doing a […]
Continue ReadingLagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, said Lagos State Government, on Saturday, had moved the Coronavirus patient to a better facility where he would be comfortable. The Commissioner, who made the latest disclosure, said the Italian was currently receiving treatment at the Infectious Disease facility at the Mainland Hospital in Yaba area of […]
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