Police have seized 17,000 fake COVID-19 testing kits discovered in raids against illicit food and drink products across dozens of countries, Interpol said Wednesday. Officials seized $40 million (34.5 million euros) worth of fake or substandard products in 77 countries and arrested 407 people in the operation, carried out from December 2019 to June 2020. […]

  By David Royal The governor of Ekiti state, Kayode Fayemi has tested positive for COVID-19. He announced this on his official twitter handle @kfayemi on Wednesday. The Chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) tweeted: “I took my third Covid-19 test yesterday and it came back positive. READ ALSO: Labour gives Fayemi 14-day strike notice […]

By Chioma Obinna The daily confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Lagos State have continued to drop, as Nigeria recorded 572 cases in 22 states with four deaths, on Tuesday. According to the report by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, the latest confirmed cases bring the total number in Nigeria to 37,801. On Monday, […]

Dr Anthony Fauci pushed back at President Trump’s characterization of him as “a little bit of an alarmist” about the coronavirus, saying he prefers to think of himself as “a realist,” according to a report. During a free-wheeling interview with Fox News host Chris Wallace that aired Sunday, Trump described the nation’s leading expert on […]

The Edo State Government has announced the discharge of 60 more coronavirus (COVID-19) patients, who have tested negative for the virus and cleared from the state’s isolation centres to reunite with the society. Commissioner for Health, Dr Patrick Okundia, who spoke to journalists in Benin City, urged residents to comply with all set guidelines to […]

Public hospitals in Madagascar are only admitting virus patients with severe symptoms. This comes as cases surge in the southern African island nation. Reports indicate that five public hospitals in the capital Antananarivo had announced that they could no longer cope with influx of patients. ALSO READ: COVID-19: There is still hope – ECOWAS Parliament Speaker […]

Number of samples tested still below 30,000 per day 3 months after By Sola Ogundipe Nigeria is currently off-track to achieve its set target of conducting two million COVID-19 tests within three months. The ambitious target was expected to be met between May and July 2020, as set by the Federal Government as a  strategy […]

As the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is plaguing and biting the world hard, an Anambra State-based businessman, Chukwudi Ezenwa, has advised Nigerians on how to stay strong in business, charging them to make wise decisions on particular investments, saying gains from one can help sustain the other. Ezenwa, a multiple business entrepreneur, explained that he managed […]

By Chioma Obinna Nigeria, on Monday, recorded another 562 confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number to 37,225. The new cases were recorded in 21 states of the federation. According to the daily report of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, leads with 102, followed by Lagos with […]

The Edo State Government has called for caution among residents, amid the rising number of confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) cases and deaths, in order to remain safe and healthy and protect the state’s aged population. The Commissioner for Health, Dr Patrick Okundia, who spoke to journalists in Benin City, decried the alarming rise in COVID-19-related fatalities […]

…State to impose stiff penalties on face mask defaulters By Peter Duru Makurdi – The Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, Mr. Titus Ugba and the Chairman, House Committee on Information, Mr. Tertsea Gbishe have both tested positive for COVID-19. This came as the state government has threatened to impose stiff penalties on […]

By Joseph Erunke – Abuja Director General of National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development, NIPRD, Dr Peter Adigwe, has said that Madagascar is “hiding the analysis of their own product (Covid-Organic)”. The NIPRD DG claimed the analysis carried out by his organisation on the Madagascar’s native formulation against the COVID-19 pandemic, did not show […]

Widespread coronavirus vaccination could begin in the middle of next year, the chief scientist of the World Health Organisation, WHO, Soumya Swaminathan said. She expressed cautious optimism about the state of the research and development process in an interview with DPA. “We have now over 20 candidates in clinical studies. “So we are hopeful that […]

Peru on Sunday passed 13,000 coronavirus deaths, the health ministry said, a day before the country is scheduled to reopen restaurants as part of easing lockdown measures. An additional 189 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, bringing the toll to 13,187, according to the ministry’s daily report. The report also showed 4,090 new […]

By Chioma Obinna Edo State, on Sunday, overtook Lagos in daily records of COVID-19 cases, as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, confirmed fresh 556 cases and 11 deaths recorded in Nigeria. “Till date, 36,663 cases have been confirmed, 15105 cases have been discharged and 789 deaths have been recorded in 36 states and […]