Oyo State’s cases of COVID-19 has reached 199, following the nine new infections. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Friday night, announced the nine new cases in Oyo. However, Governor Seyi Makinde, who is Chairman of the State COVID-19 Task Force, has said they were doing everything to contain the spread of the […]

Africa has now recorded more than 100,000 cases of coronavirus, according to an AFP tally drawn from official figures on Friday. Across the continent, a total of 100,002 cases had been registered as of 1100 GMT Friday, of which 3,095 were fatal. Countries in northern Africa have the highest death tolls, led by Egypt (696 […]

The United Kingdom is considering introducing, among its quarantine regime, “COVID Passports” that will allow those that have had the disease travel and return without going into quarantine on their return. Although the COVID Passports and travel corridors would allow families to travel abroad this summer, the new quarantine regime for arrivals is meeting with […]

By Chioma Obinna As part of efforts to contain and successfully manage COVID-19, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has validated the first phase of a scientific procedure to extract the RNA of coronavirus. These extraction kits form part of the components of testing through real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction, PCR. Speaking at the validation in […]

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has explained the phased re-opening of the state’s economy following the lockdown necessitated by COVID-19 pandemic. He said that the construction and manufacturing sectors would be accorded high priority for full re-opening, given the high level of employment they generate. Sanwo-Olu gave a breakdown of the phased re-opening at […]

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has said the state is ready to re-open its economy, with the rollout of a four-page ”Register-to-Open” guidelines. Sanwo-Olu said this at a webinar by First Securities Discount House, FSDH, Group, where Sanwo-Olu was a panelist in the online discussion that also featured Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State […]

Coronavirus infections in South Africa surged past 20,000 with close to 400 deaths, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said on Friday. In a statement the ministry reported 20,125 coronavirus positive cases, and a total of 397 deaths countrywide. The continent’s most industrialised nation has the highest number of coronavirus infections, with the coastal province of the […]

By Ike Uchechukwu – Calabar The sample of the nurse who reportedly died of COVID-19 on Thursday in Calabar, the Cross River state capital has come out negative. Speaking with Vanguard on the telephone on Friday evening, Commissioner for Health,Dr Beta Edu confirmed that the sample of the deceased nurse ( names withheld was actually […]

Prisoners in Morocco are doing their bit in the country’s fight against the spread of coronavirus — by making thousands of face masks for fellow inmates. “We feel like we are contributing to the collective effort, even if it’s from behind prison walls,” 40-year-old Khalid, wearing a white coat and a face mask, told AFP […]

A news editor in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Southeast Asia has been jailed for two years after his agency reported a coronavirus death that turned out to be an error (false), his lawyer said Friday. The country has only 199 confirmed cases of coronavirus and seen six deaths, although the low numbers […]

President Andry Rajoelina says Madagascar will sign a confidentiality clause with the World Health Organization on the formulation of COVID-Organics, the purported cure for the coronavirus pandemic. He disclosed this after a teleconference with WHO boss Tedros Adhanom Ghabreyesus on Wednesday. He also said the WHO had agreed to support the country’s clinical observation process. […]

By Rotimi Ojomoyela – Ado-Ekiti The Ekiti State government has recorded second COVID-19 death. The patient, a 75- year old woman, was the last COVID-19 index case recorded in the state, who had been hospitalised in one of the tertiary hospitals in the state before the disease was detected in her. The health commissioner, Yaya-Kolade […]

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday recorded 339 new cases of COVID-19 in the country, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 7,016. The NCDC disclosed this on its twitter handle on Thursday night. “339 new cases of #COVID19; 139-Lagos 28-Kano 28-Oyo 25-Edo 22-Katsina 18-Kaduna 14-Jigawa 13-Yobe 13-Plateau 11-FCT […]

THE Federal Government said yesterday it was considering issuing a new set of guidelines with regards to COVID-19 case management in the country, saying Lagos State, Nigeria’s epicentre of the pandemic, has currently ran out of isolation and treatment spaces.

United States President, Donald Trump, said Thursday he’d finally overcome his aversion to wearing masks against the coronavirus — but didn’t want be photographed. Touring a Ford auto factory in Ypsilanti, Michigan, where workers have converted to building respirators and other medical equipment for fighting COVID-19, Trump held up a mask and claimed to have […]