NECESSITY, they say is the mother of inventions. This is what the outbreak of Coronavirous pandemic has turned many organisations, agencies as well as military and paramilitary bodies across the globe.

MELINDA, the wife of Bill Gates – Microsoft co-founder, tycoon and philanthropist – has said she fears that the bodies of people who have been killed by the coronavirus will litter the streets of Africa.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Thursday screening of 3,000 people found nearly 14% tested positive for antibodies for the novel coronavirus, suggesting that 2.7 million residents across the state may have been infected with the disease. Cuomo noted that the survey was preliminary and had limitations, including the possibility that New York, like […]

By Chioma Obinna As the world marks this year’s World Malaria Day, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, has identified malaria infection as one risk factor that would increase the case fatality of COVID-19 even as it noted that about 97 per cent of the country’s population was at risk of malaria infection. Stating this in […]

By Kayode Ojewale THE National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, in its renewed efforts at combating and addressing the coronavirus pandemic, has put in place some regulatory measures to ensure quality, safety and efficacy of diagnostic test kits to aid the detection of the virus in patients. According to a press […]