Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, in this interview, speaks on the efforts to ramp up Covid-19 testing amid criticisms that the authorities aren’t doing enough to test for the virus with a view to determining the extent of community transmission in Nigeria.

Russia confirmed 8,952 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, raising its total infections to 396,575, its coronavirus response centre said in a statement Saturday. The death toll increased by 181 to 4,555, while 167,469 people have recovered, including 8,212 over the last 24 hours, according to the statement. Moscow, the country’s worst-hit region, […]

By Chioma Obinna Nigeria, on Saturday, recorded 553 new COVID-19 infections, making it the highest in 24 hours since the country recorded its index case precisely in February 2020. According to the daily report released by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Lagos still tops the chart with the highest cases of 378, followed […]

They issued the warning in a communiqué issued at the end of its 40th Ordinary General Meeting with the theme: “Health inequalities and social determinants of Health in Nigeria” in Bauchi State.

By Esther Onyegbula As part of its effort to assist Lagos State government in the fight against COVID-19, Feed Industry Practitioners Association of Nigeria, FIPAN; Nigerian Institute of Animal Science, NIAS, and Poultry Association of Nigeria, PAN, have donated 60,000 eggs to the state government through the Ministry of Agriculture. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of […]

An Indonesian minister is under fire after he compared coronavirus to rebellious wives, in remarks aimed at soothing public fears about easing COVID-19 restrictions across the Southeast Asian archipelago. Women’s groups and social media users slammed the apparent joke by the Indonesia’s security minister Mohammad Mahfud MD, who made the comments during an online address […]

The Kaduna State Government on Saturday disclosed that the four-month-old child that tested positive to COVID-19 has been discharged. The government, however, said there are still 76 active cases in the state as at Friday. In an update by the Commissioner of Health, Dr Amina Mohammed-Baloni, out of the 232 cases reported, 149 have been […]

By David Royal The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Friday said Nigeria recorded 387 new cases of the Coronavirus, (COVID-19), in the country, the total infections now 9,302. It said “On the 29th of May 2020, 387 new confirmed cases and 2 deaths were recorded in Nigeria No new state has reported a case […]

By Shina Abubakar – Osogbo An 82-year-old widow with high blood pressure has recovered from coronavirus disease after receiving nine-day treatment at the Isolation and Treatment Centre, Asubiaro, Osogbo, in Osun State. She was admitted into the state isolation centre having been confirmed positive on the May 13, 2020. The State Commissioner for Health, Dr. […]

By Rotimi Ojomoyela – Ado-Ekiti The Ekiti State government has said by Monday, June 1, it would commission the COVID-19 Molecular Laboratory established to boost the testing capacity of the state. The government disclosed that a sum of N2 million has been realised from the court fines imposed on over 100 lockdown offenders arrested since […]

The Osun Government says an 82-year-old woman recovered from the coronavirus disease in the state, against the belief that elderly people with chronic diseases are the highest risk group. Dr Rafiu Isamotu, the State Commissioner for Health, confirmed the recovery in a statement on Friday in Osogbo. Isamotu said that the woman, who was hypertensive, […]

Two UN peacekeepers in Mali have died from the coronavirus, officials said Friday. Out of the some 100,000 UN troops deployed on about 15 different missions around the world, these two are the first whose deaths were directly linked to the pandemic. “Unfortunately, I also want to say that yesterday and today two of our […]

President Trump, on Friday, announced the United States of America, USA’s termination of its relationship with the World Health Organisation, WHO, over the body’s response to COVID-19.

Dozens of scientists have raised concerns over a large-scale study of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine published in the Lancet that led to the World Health Organization suspending clinical trials of the anti-viral drugs as a potential treatment for COVID-19. Hydroxychloroquine, normally used to treat arthritis, has become one of the most high profile drugs being tested […]

The Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, on Friday, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to issue an order of unfettered access for Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, to carry out COVID-19 tests in Kogi State.