By Rasheed Sobowale Two States in Nigeria, Anambra and Niger States on Friday recorded their first case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) disease. The confirmation of the index cases in the states brings the total number of states in Nigeria with confirmed coronavirus case(s) to 19. This was revealed in the recently released report by […]

Boris Johnson has taken his first steps after being admitted to hospital with coronavirus on Sunday, amid suggestions that he will now need up to a month to recuperate. After spending his first day back in a low-dependency ward at St Thomas’s Hospital, London, Downing Street said the Prime Minister was now able to do […]

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, reported seventeen new cases of COVID-19. The body gave the breakdown as follows: eight in Lagos; three in Katsina; two in FCT and one each in Niger, Kaduna, Anambra and Ondo. As at 9:30 p.m. on Friday, the total number of COVID-19 cases are now 305 in Nigeria. 58 […]

Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, and Day 7; many Nigerians notably in Lagos State and Abuja have been counting. They are not the only ones experiencing the total lockdown as other states have followed suit to stem the spread of the coronavirus in the country. In fact, Ogun […]

New coronavirus vaccine trial underway in the US and funded by the Bill Gates Foundation uses ‘skin-deep’ shots instead of jabs into the muscle, which is typically used. The pinch should feel like a simple skin test, a researcher told one of the 40 volunteers lying on an exam table in Kansas City, Missouri, on […]

By Kingsley Omonobi As part of its continued support towards combating the COVID-19 pandemic, the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, on Friday, airlifted medical equipment and supplies donated by the Turkish government to Nigeria from Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos, to Nnmadi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja. Director of NAF Public Relations and Information, Air […]

Dayo Johnson Akure THE second index case of COVID-19 was yesterday confirmed in Akure, the Ondo State capital. This is coming barely a week after a returnee army officer was tested positive to the deadly disease. It was allegedly discovered at Ijoka area of Akure metropolis. Confirming this, the state Commissioner for Health, Dr Wahab […]

Any premature lifting of restrictions imposed to control the COVID-19 pandemic could lead to a fatal resurgence of the new coronavirus, the World Health Organization warned Friday. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that while some states were considering ways to ease the restrictions which have placed around half of humanity under some form of […]

  A large majority of Americans would be reluctant to attend future sporting events unless a vaccine for the coronavirus is developed, a survey by Seton Hall University has found. With every major sport across North America in shutdown for the past month since the COVID-19 crisis erupted, professional leagues are already exploring the practicalities […]

The Edo State Commissioner for Health, Dr Patrick Okundia has disclosed that the newly built, ultra-modern Stella Obasanjo Hospital Isolation Center (SOHIC) is ready to receive cases of COVID-19 in the state. In a chat with journalists in Benin City, the commissioner said health workers and other medical personnel have been deployed to the facility, […]