The World Health Organization, WHO still has no idea if coronavirus patients build enough immunity to stop them from getting sick again in the future, a top doctor there has admitted. “With regards to recovery and then reinfection, I believe we do not have the answers to that. That is an unknown,” the WHO’s executive […]

By Abdulmumin Murtala, Kano Kano state governor Abdullahi Ganduje has has lucked down Kano for seven days beginning from 10 pm on Thursday 16 March, 2020. The governor made the announcement after a meeting with various stakeholders in the state and the state security council on Tuesday. ALSO READ: Police uncover decomposed body in uncompleted building […]

By Jimoh Babatunde Director-General of National Council for Arts and Culture, NCAC, Otunba Segun Runsewe, has called on Nigerians, particularly residents of Lagos, Ogun and FCT, to brace up and fight off the COVID- 19 pandemic through strategic protocols already in place. Runsewe explained that President Muhammadu Buhari, as the father of the nation, is […]

To flag off daily food kitchen for youths to douse tension among restive youths Says over 200,000 vulnerable households have been reached so far on palliative measures 600 childbirths recorded so far in Lagos on free of charge during lockdown ..Updating data for remittance of cash to about 250,000 indigents by the end of the […]

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage around the world, China has approved two experimental vaccines against COVID-19 for phase one and two clinical trials, Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday. These two new inactivated coronavirus vaccines were developed by the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products and a unit of Nasdaq-listed Sinovac Biotech in Beijing […]

A group of Southern California pastors is suing California Governor, Gavin Newsom, and several other officials in federal court over health directives that have prevented worshipers from attending church services due to the coronavirus pandemic. According to CNN, the suit was filed on Monday in the US District Court for the Central District of California […]

…As Sanwo-,Olu says biggest focus now is security, welfare By Olasunkanmi Akoni The Lagos State Government has discharged another eight patients, six males, and two females from Infectious Disease Hospital, IDH, Yaba, having recovered fully and tested negative twice consecutively to COVID-19. With the newly discharged patients, a total of 69 patients have been successfully […]

By Innocent Anaba A civil rights organisation, Legal Defence and Assistance Project, LEDAP, has written all states of the federation and their respective ministry of Justice and Attorney General to stop indiscriminate arrests and detention to decongest custody centres to help stop the spread of the coronavirus in the country. LEDAP’s National Coordinator, Chino Obiagwu(SAN), […]

Longtime Disney animator Ann Sullivan, 91, who was a painter on The Little Mermaid and Lion King, is third person to die of coronavirus at California nursing home for those in the entertainment industry. A veteran Disney animator has died of COVID-19 at age 91, and is the third resident of a California nursing home […]

By Ugochukwu Alaribe & Eric Ugbor UMUAHIA- As part of efforts to prevent and control the spread of coronavirus, Abia State government has commenced the fumigation of markets, motor parks and other public places in Aba and Umuahia cities of the state. Flagging off the exercise in Umuahia, Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu, who was represented by […]

The Edo State Government has urged employers of labour in the state not to lay off staff, but rather explore human-faced measures to support workers who are at home due to the restrictions imposed to halt the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). The Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, who made the appeal, said such measures […]

  Two of the world’s biggest vaccine companies, GSK and Sanofi, have joined forces in an unprecedented effort to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi, which combined have the largest vaccine manufacturing capability in the world, are working together on a high-tech vaccine, which they say could be in human trials within months. According […]

An evangelical pastor died of COVID-19 just weeks after proudly showing off how packed his Virginia church was — and vowing to keep preaching “unless I’m in jail or the hospital.” In his last known in-person service on March 22, Bishop Gerald O. Glenn got his congregation at Richmond’s New Deliverance Evangelistic Church to stand […]

More than 100 recovered coronavirus patients have tested positive again in South Korea. Officials said at least 116 people initially cleared of Covid-19 had tested positive again days later. The Korea Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) say the virus may have ‘reactivated’ rather than the patients becoming re-infected with it. The cause of […]

By Dapo Akinrefon The Alema of Warri Kingdom, Chief Oritsejolomi Uduaghan, has provided food items and other palliatives to residents of over 500 communities in the 25 local government areas of Delta State to cushion the effect of the lockdown occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic. The distribution of food items to vulnerable residents of the […]