Around 70 people were trapped after a hotel collapsed in China’s eastern Fujian province on Saturday evening, officials said. Xinjia Hotel collapsed around 7:30 pm (1130 GMT) and around 23 people had been rescued by 9:00 pm, according to a Quanzhou city government statement. The 80-room hotel was recently converted to a quarantine facility for…
Former Iranian deputy foreign minister Hussein Sheikholeslam has died after contracting the Covid-19 virus. The 67-year old diplomat died early Friday morning in a hospital in Iran’s capital city Tehran, Tasnim news agency reported Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif described him in a press release as a friend and always the fair-minded diplomat. Sheikholeslam was…
Cameroon has confirmed its first case of the novel coronavirus, a French national who arrived in the capital Yaounde in February, the government said on Friday. The man, 58, has been placed in isolation in a hospital, the health ministry said in a statement. In sub-Saharan Africa, Senegal has registered four cases, all foreign nationals,…
The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, has confirmed that two out of the three recent suspected cases of Coronavirus identified in Lagos are negative, while the result for the last is still being awaited. Channels Television reported that the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, on Thursday, disclosed that three cases have been…
As the world grapples with the spread of novel coronavirus, in remote western DR Congo, officials are fighting a deadly outbreak of measles. More than 6,000 people have died from measles in the Democratic Republic of Congo in a year, the world’s worst outbreak and triple the toll of the country’s Ebola epidemic. It is…
Alexandra Hospital in Singapore is set to make use of a robot to distribute meals and medication to some patients suspected or confirmed to have coronavirus. The hospital will also task another robot with the responsibility of cleaning and chatting with patients in four languages including Singlish. The disclosure was made by the spokesperson of…
The Vatican on Friday reported its first coronavirus case, saying it had suspended outpatient services at its health clinic after a patient tested positive for COVID-19. The clinic inside the tiny city-state – which has some 1,000 residents – will be deep cleaned, while the emergency room will remain open, spokesman Matteo Bruni said. South…
The federal government of Nigeria has disclosed that the identity of the Italian who brought coronavirus into Nigeria was not made public because it negates medical ethics. According to Osagie Ehanire, the minister for health, for such to be done, the patient would need to give his consent. Speaking while fielding questions from newsmen shortly…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo Guests who attended former President Olusegun Obasanjo‘s 83rd birthday which held at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta were kept safe from the deadly coronavirus as nobody was allowed into the venue without undergoing a test. After the test, each guest was then given a sanitizer as a protective tool…
The first case of coronavirus in South Africa has been confirmed. On Thursday, the country’s Health Minister, Dr. Zweli Mkhize disclosed in a statement that a 38-year-old man tested positive for the (COVID-19) virus in KwaZulu-Natal after visiting Italy with his wife. He said the man returned home on 1 March and was isolated due to…