Perez Brisibe, Ughelli The Delta State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC has raised alarm over what it described as the poor condition of state-owned hospitals in the state amidst the COVID-19 pandemic with a call on the state governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa to fix them. The party also lamented the non-availability of Personal […]

  As South Africa prepares to launch the continent’s first coronavirus vaccine trial, the Rainbow Nation has opened a new field hospital for people with COVID-19 in a de-commissioned Volkswagen plant. According to the country’s health authorities, 3,300 beds have been installed in the new field hospital, bringing the total number of beds across the […]

By Ola Ajayi – Ibadan The management of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan has faulted the Oyo State Government on its claims that the teaching hospital was given the sum of N118 million out of the N2.7 billion it claimed the Governor Seyi Makinde-led government had spent on COVID-19 pandemic. The state government through […]

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 452 confirmed new coronavirus cases in the country on Tuesday. The 452 cases announced by the Centre for Disease Control takes the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases is now put at 21371. The NCDC also announced the discharge of 229 patients from isolation centers across […]

More than 200 pupils and staff who returned to a boarding school in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province this month tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) on Tuesday, officials said. Eastern Cape accounts for around 15 percent of South Africa’s 101,590 COVID-19 cases, making it the country’s third worst affected province. The province’s health department announced […]

South Africa will roll out the first African first coronavirus vaccine trial this week, the university leading the pilot said Tuesday, as the country grapples with the highest number of cases in Africa. The vaccine, developed by the Oxford Jenner Institute, is already being evaluated in Britain, where 4,000 participants have signed up for the […]

By Emmanuel Elebeke The UK Government has donated brand new Polymerase Chain Reaction machine, PCR to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC to speed up Nigeria’s Covid-19 testing capacity. The donation was made known by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) while unveiling the brand new Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machine, which has […]

Nigeria’s tally of confirmed COVID-19 cases rose to 20, 919 on Monday as 675 new infections were announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. Seven deaths were recorded from the virus on Monday, bringing the total number of confirmed deaths from the virus to 525. This was announced by the Nigeria Center for Disease […]

The Federal Government yesterday declared that no state in Nigeria was free of COVID-19 amid claims by some states government that they were free of the pandemic.

Says, many Nigerians wear facemasks only to evade arrest Laments lack of adequate testing Assuages fears over hike in airfares By Omeiza Ajayi The Federal Government has dismissed reports that some states in Nigeria are now free of COVID-19 having discharged all patients in their isolation and treatment centres. Some states had recently discharged all their […]

South Africa on Monday said it had over 100,000 coronavirus cases, the highest in the continent, while the number of deaths inched towards 2,000. “As of today, the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in South Africa has breached the 100 000 mark at 101,590,” the health ministry said. Sixty-one deaths were recorded in the […]

By Adeola Badru FOLLOWING the gradual reopening of the Oyo State Secretariat, workers in the employ of the state government have been warned to comply strictly with the COVID-19 guidelines as they are resuming to their various offices. Governor Seyi Makinde, through the state’s Head of Service, Mrs Ololade Agboola, in a statement issued on […]

By Theresa Nanlong – Jos Following the increasing number of people infected with the COVID-19 disease in Plateau State and the continued flagrant disregard for safety protocols, the State government has threatened to return the State to the period of total lockdown to curb the rate of community infection in the State. The State Commissioner […]

By Ola Ajayi – Ibadan As cases of COVID-19 increase in Oyo State, staff of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, protested non-payment of their share of the hazard allowance paid to doctors and other health workers. They took their protest to the office of the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the teaching hospital, Prof. […]

Emma Ujah The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has shut down operations at its headquarters in Abuja on concerns of COVID-19. It was learnt that the decision to shut down the organisation’s headquarters located at the Central Business District of the capital city was to enable it to be fumigated. A top official told Vanguard, […]