Services to be scaled up across 18 LGAs The Edo State Government has set up screening facilities in six Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) and four private hospitals in Benin City, as part of efforts to curtail the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in the state. The Edo State Commissioner for Health, Dr Patrick Okundia, who disclosed […]

The Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, on Thursday reeled out several conditions countries looking to lift coronavirus restrictions must meet to prevent another surge of infections. In his weekly address to Geneva-based diplomats, Tedros said that easing social and economic curbs “must be done extremely carefully. “If done too quickly, […]

Eyes narrowed in focus behind her face shield, Jana Du Plessis, a South African doctor kept a steady hand as she inserted a tube down the throat of a dummy, working through the lid of a plexiglass box. Du Plessis, a doctor at Johannesburg’s Charlotte Maxeke public hospital, practised moving around a newly-designed isolation device […]

A frontline aspirant of the All Progressives Congress in Edo state, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu ahead 2020 governorship election yesterday condemned the level of insecurity in the state and streak of attacks on farmers in rural communities across the state which led to the killing of two farmers in Odighi, Ovia North-East local government area by suspected armed herdsmen.

By Omeiza Ajayi ABUJA – Following the activation of about five mobile courts to try violators of its lockdown order, The Federal Capital Territory FCT Administration yesterday secured the conviction of no fewer than 20 of such violators. While they were fined between N1,000 and N5, 000, those with vehicles would only get them back […]