President Donald Trump has become the first world leader to suggest postponing the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as the coronavirus pandemic spreads. “This is just my idea… Maybe they postpone it for a year,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, 134 days before the opening ceremony is scheduled to take place in Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium….
The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, has said the second patient, who earlier tested positive for coronavirus in Nigeria, has now tested negative. He said this during a briefing with newsmen on Friday in Abuja. Details later…
Gabon and Ghana have confirmed their first cases of coronavirus, becoming the ninth and tenth countries in sub-Saharan Africa to register positive cases of COVID-19 virus. In a statement on Thursday, Gabon’s government said its case was a 27-year-old Gabonese man who had returned from France on March 8, while Ghana’s health ministry said its two cases…
The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Abubakar III, has lamented the hardship being faced by Nigerians, noting that hunger was killing the people more than the dreaded coronavirus. The monarch said this in Abuja on Thursday during the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council meeting attended by the Secretary to Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha. Speaking on…
The Nation reports that the state’s commissioner for health, Prof Akin Abayomi, said the two men were identified within 24 hours after their names were made public. GIOTV learns that the commissioner made the disclosure on Wednesday, March 11. The two men, identified as Salami Abiodun Sadeeq and Enwelunta Obumnore Godfrey, boarded the same flight…
Health minister and Conservative MP Nadine Dorries has been diagnosed with coronavirus. Ms Dorries, the first MP to test positive, said she had taken all the advised precautions after finding out and has been self-isolating at home. This comes as a sixth person died from the virus in the UK, which has a total of…
Scientists in London will pay volunteers £3,500 to be infected in experiments to develop a vaccine for the deadly virus. Volunteers in east London are being paid to take part in an experiment whereby they will be infected with COVID 19 in a bid to find a cure for the virus. The participants will receive…
The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, has announced a second confirmed case of Coronavirus in Nigeria. It was gathered that the victim had contact with the Italian that brought coronavirus to Nigeria. The victim was said to be one of those under isolation. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control confirmed this in a tweet on…
The wife of South Africa’s first novel coronavirus patient tested positive on Sunday becoming the third confirmed case in the country, the health authority said. All three of South Africa’s confirmed cases were in a group of 10 people who had traveled to Italy, the health minister said in a statement. Medical workers wearing protective…
A new report by Sky News has claimed that popular social media site, Facebook has closed down its three of its London offices after one of its employees was diagnosed with coronavirus. A Facebook employee who was normally based in Singapore was diagnosed with the virus after visiting the company’s London offices between 24-26 February,…