About 200 Nigerian citizens set to return home are stranded in Canada as their evacuation flight is postponed. The Nigeria High Commission in Ottawa disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday. The commission explained that “logistics issues” beyond its control are to blame for the postponement of the flight. It disclosed that a new date…
The United States recorded 1,894 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 82,246, according to the real-time tally by Johns Hopkins University at 8:30 pm Tuesday (0030 GMT Wednesday). The figure was a sharp rise after daily tolls fell below 1,000 on Sunday and Monday. The country hardest hit by the…
The Lagos State Government, on Wednesday, announced the recovery and discharge of 26 more patients who tested negative twice to the Coronavirus. Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said in a statement that the total number of COVID-19 patients discharged had become 528. ‘Good people of Lagos, today, 26 COVID-19 Lagos patients; 13 males and…
The Nigeria center for disease control NCDC has announced the confirmation of 184 new cases of COVID-19. NCDC made the announcement through its Twitter handle few minutes ago. “184 new cases of #COVID19;” 51-Lagos 23-Jigawa 16-Bauchi 16-Katsina 14-Kano 10-FCT 10-Rivers 9-Kwara 5-Delta 5-Kaduna 4-Sokoto 4-Oyo 3-Kebbi 3-Nasarawa 3-Osun 2-Ondo 1-Ebonyi 1-Edo 1-Enugu 1-Anambra 1-Plateau 1-Niger…
A three-day-old baby whose mother contracted the deadly coronavirus before he was born, has died. A newborn baby has died in hospital after his mother caught Covid-19, an inquest has heard. Coolio Carl Justin Morgan’s mum tested positive for the virus before she gave birth. He was born with a low heart rate at the…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) berates President Muhammadu Buhari for discounting the development of homegrown remedies only to seek solutions from Madagascar even when our nation brims with curative resources against ailments such as COVID-19. While the PDP has nothing against any genuine effort to secure therapeutics for COVID-19, our party holds that such solutions…
A 113-year-old woman, believed to be the oldest person living in Spain, has beaten the coronavirus at a retirement home where several other residents died from the disease, the residence said Tuesday. Maria Branyas, who was born in the US, became infected in April at the Santa Maria del Tura care home in the eastern…
In a bid to find a cure for the COVID-19 ravaging the globe, the World Health Organisation (WHO), on Tuesday, said it met with 70 traditional medicine experts. This was made known on WHO Afro Region official Twitter handle, @WHOAFRO. WHO further disclosed an agreement was reached with the herbal medicine experts on clinical trials…
The Federal Government has said the COVID Organics touted by Madagascar and expected in the country would be subjected to “stringent” evaluation and regulatory processes before it could be dispensed to coronavirus patients. The National Coordinator of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Dr Sani Aliyu, stated this during the briefing in Abuja on Tuesday….
At least 471 deaths have been recorded across five local government areas in Yobe State within the last three weeks. The state task force on COVID-19 made the revelation on Tuesday. The Yobe State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Muhammad Lawan Gana, who is also the vice-chairman of the state COVID-19 Committee on Prevention and Control,…