Over 80 drone applications under review, training centre in pipeline — NCAA
Stories by Dickson Omobola Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, has said it is in the process of approving a new aviation training facility for drone operators. NCAA’s Director of Aerodrome and Airspace Standards, Engineer Godwin Balang, said the agency has chosen to be methodical to ensure the facility met all operational benchmarks. Balang, who spoke at the […]
Coronavirus: Rapid test kits to be made in Senegal
Rapid test kits that scientists say will diagnose coronavirus within 10 minutes are being developed in a laboratory in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, and are expected to be available from June. The project at the custom-built DiaTropix facility is a collaboration between British biotech firm Mologic and Senegal’s renowned Institut Pasteur de Dakar. Some 2 million […]
Africa’s low coronavirus rate due to robust preps – Senegal expert
With just over 100 cases reported in total, Africa is on record as among the least impacted continents with respect to the coronavirus epidemic. Experts are however pointing at the gradual incidence of cases in recent weeks. Eleven countries have so far confirmed cases with the most recent being the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC. […]
Zanzibar tourism hit by coronavirus fears
0 Tanzania’s semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar has not had any confirmed cases of the coronavirus. Yet its economy has been hard hit by tourists’ fears about the pandemic, with reports of hotel cancellations after the government suspended direct flights from Italy. At least 80% of Zanzibar’s annual foreign income comes from tourism but the government […]
COVID-19: FIFA reschedules congress slated for Addis Ababa
Football’s world governing body, FIFA, has rescheduled its 70th Congress that was scheduled for May 2020 at the African Union’s headquarters in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. The event has been moved to September 2020 in Addis Ababa. An official FIFA statement issued on Wednesday (March 11) read in part: “On account of the spread […]
Saudi Arabia widens travel ban to Europe, others over coronavirus
Saudi Arabia has extended flight and travel bans over coronavirus fears to include the European Union and 12 other countries after announcing 24 new cases overnight to bring its total to 45, state media reported on Thursday. Citizens and residents in the affected jurisdictions have 72 hours to return to the kingdom, state news agency […]
Greece reports first coronavirus death, a 66-year-old man
Greece reported its first fatality from a coronavirus infection on Thursday, a 66-year-old man who had returned from a religious pilgrimage to Israel and Egypt at the end of February. The deceased had underlying health issues, the health ministry said in a statement. There were 99 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Greece by late Wednesday. […]
COVID-19: LASG quarantines four siblings, two others
…locates 2 mission contacts of index case By Chioma Obinna The Lagos State Government Wednesday quarantined four siblings, their teacher from the United States and another man from the United Kingdom even as it disclosed that it has located the two missing contacts of the index case. Disclosing these while giving an update on COVID-19 […]
WHO declares coronavirus outbreak global pandemic
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic. The director-general of WHO, Tedros Ghebreyesus, announced this on Wednesday during a media briefing. Pandemic is used to describe a disease outbreak that has spread to several countries and affected a large number of people. “In the past two weeks, the number […]
WHO declares coronavirus disease a pandemic
The World health organisation, WHO, has declared coronavirus disease a pandemic.
Council on Foreign Relations cancel coronavirus conference because of coronavirus
The Council on Foreign Relations has cancelled a roundtable called “Doing Business Under Coronavirus” scheduled for Friday in New York due to the spread of the infection itself. CFR has also cancelled other in-person conferences that were scheduled from March 11 to April 3, including roundtables in New York and Washington and national events around the […]
Libyans say war’s keeping COVID-19 at bay
While the new coronavirus outbreak has been steadily gaining ground with more than 100 countries already affected, many Libyans believe that isolation of their war-torn country could alleviate the threat. Badreddine al-Najjar is president at the Libya center for disease control. “For time being, there are no cases of coronavirus registered in Libya. Through our […]
Indonesia, Belgium record first death from coronavirus
A female patient in Indonesia who was infected with the new coronavirus has died, becoming the first known fatal case in the country.the The Belgian Health Ministry disclosed this on Wednesday. The ministry reported on Wednesday that it was the first coronavirus death in the country, Belga news agency said citing a statement. The 53-year-old […]
Coronavirus deaths soar in Italy, US deploys national guard
Italians braced for a second day of national lockdown Wednesday after a sharp spike in coronavirus-related deaths, as New York deployed the National Guard to contain a disease that has sown worldwide panic. Europe’s hardest-hit country said the death toll from the COVID-19 virus had risen Tuesday by a third to 631, with the surging […]
Panama records Central America’s first coronavirus death
Panama’s health minister on Tuesday confirmed eight cases of the new coronavirus in the country, including one death, the first virus-linked death in Central America. “Of the eight patients we are reporting, one person is in intensive care, another unfortunately died,” Minister Rosario Turner said during a press conference in Panama City. According to the […]
British minister, Dorries tests positive to new coronavirus
Nadine Dorries, Britain’s minister for patient safety, suicide prevention, and mental health, has tested positive to the new coronavirus, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said. “Really sorry to hear Nadine has tested positive for coronavirus. “She has done the right thing by self-isolating at home,” Hancock said in a tweet. And in a statement circulated […]
