Morocco has banned fans from attending football games days after the coronavirus reached the country. The Moroccan football association (FRMF) announced the decision on Wednesday two days after the index case was reported. Among the measures, the organization of matches behind closed doors, but above all the cancellation of matches with teams from countries affected […]

The House of Representatives has set up an ad hoc committee to recommend measures to address the continuous fall in price of crude oil at the international market due to the negative effect of coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

A Thai national suspected of having coronavirus has escaped from a hospital in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare, state-owned Herald newspaper reported on Monday. The outlet in a tweet said the patient had escaped from the Wilkins Infectious Disease Hospital where he was scheduled to undergo testing, “authorities are looking for the Thai national,” the newspaper added. […]

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday announced a coronavirus task force with the aim of helping control the virus which as at today had affected two persons. “This action is in preparation for the unlikely but probable major outbreak of the disease in the country which will require a multi-sectoral inter-governmental approach as advised by […]

As a proactive measure to contain coronavirus, COVID-19, President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, set up a task force for the control of the disease.

BY GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE EDO State Government has said there was no case of coronavirus (COVID-19) in the state, assuring that all suspected cases of the virus, whose samples were sent for analysis at the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital in the state, tested negative. Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Communication Strategy, Crusoe Osagie, […]

Italian authorities were on Monday struggling to restore order in prisons up and down the country after coronavirus related riots led to six inmates’ deaths and dozens of escapes. Inmates are concerned about contagion risks within prisons and are angry at a recent government decision to restrict outside visits as part of a national outbreak […]

The number of coronavirus cases in Germany has passed 1,000, official data from the Robert Koch Institute disease control centre showed on Monday. There are now a total of 1,112 confirmed cases in Europe’s biggest economy, with the region of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) reporting 484 infections — the highest number among Germany’s 16 states. In […]

Albania reported its first confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus on Monday, a man who returned from Italy late last month and his father, the health ministry said. “A 54-year-old man and his 28-year-old son who returned by car from Florence tested positive for COVID-19,” a ministry statement said. The two are hospitalised in the […]

The number of people infected with coronavirus topped 110,000 across the world as the outbreak reached more countries and caused more economic damage. DEATHS/INFECTIONS More than 110,000 people have been infected by the coronavirus across the world and over 3,800 have died, according to a Reuters tally of government announcements. Mainland China, where the outbreak […]