By David Royal Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has announced the discharge of four more coronavirus patients, including an 11-year-old boy from the state’s isolation centre. This brings the total number of discharged patients in the state to 50. The governor, who made the announcement on Saturday via its twitter handle, appealed to residents to […]

Egyptian police arrested a dozen people and fired tear gas in a Nile Delta village Saturday, as a crowd protested the burial of a COVID-19 victim, a security source said. Relatives had taken the body of a retired doctor from her home in Daqahliya north of Cairo to the family vault in the village of […]

China’s auto sales sank 48.4% in March from a year ago as the economy reeled from the coronavirus, according to an industry group, adding to strains for the struggling industry in its biggest global market. Sales of SUVs, sedans and minivans totaled just over 1 million, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said. Total vehicle […]

The Kaduna State Government on Saturday, confirmed a new case of coronavirus. The new case  had no connection to the first 5 cases, state government official has said. The  number of COVID-19 infected persons  in the state as at Friday, had risen to six.

By David Royal Federal Capital Territory, FCTA, Abuja on Saturday announced the discharge of four patients receiving treatment for coronavirus after recovering from the disease. FCTA announced the good news in a tweet on its verified handle. READ ALSO: Abuja Lockdown: Taskforce apprehends man with fake Exemption Pass “The FCTA has confirmed the discharge of […]

Barely 24 hours after the Botswana government announced that all lawmakers were supposed to observe a period of quarantine for COVID-19 coronavirus, the Director of Health Services at the Ministry of Health and Wellness, says a number of MPs are to be put under government-supervised quarantine. Dr Malaki Tshipayagae said the MPs in question had […]

Following the discovery of another coronavirus (COVID-19) case in Akure, Ondo State capital, on Friday, the state government, on Saturday, announced the reversal of its order on the partial relax on the ban on religious activities. The state government has cancelled all the special concessions granted to churches and Christians in the state to hold […]

Chief Osita Chidoka, a former Minister of Aviation, has congratulated Nigerians for their efforts in the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic in the country. Chidoka said this in his Easter message where he called on all Nigerians, both Christians and Muslims, to embrace and exhibit the love Christ exemplified for us through his sufferings and […]

Congo has been battling an Ebola outbreak that has killed thousands of people for more than 18 months, and now it must also face a new scourge: the coronavirus pandemic. Ebola has left those living in the country’s east weary and fearful, and, just as they were preparing to declare an end to the outbreak, […]

Cameroon’s aged president is coming under fire for his absence from the national stage as the central African country faces a burgeoning coronavirus crisis. A month after the first case of COVID-19 was recorded, 87-year-old Paul Biya has yet to address the nation — a silence that for supporters is a sign of gravitas but […]

U.S. President Donald Trump ordered his government to give support to coronavirus-hit Italy, in a memorandum published late on Friday. “(Italy), one of our closest and oldest Allies, is being ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic,” Trump wrote in the memo. Although the U.S. government’s “first and foremost responsibility is to the American people,” helping Italy […]

The United States on Friday become the first country to record more than 2,000 coronavirus deaths in one day, with 2,108 fatalities in the past 24 hours, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally. The US has now recorded 18,586 deaths and is closing in on the toll of 18,849 dead in Italy, which has […]

By David Royal Lagos state has recorded one more death from COVID-19. According to the state’s Health Commissioner, Prof Akin Abayomi, the patient died of COVID-19 complications in a private hospital in Lagos. Abayomi revealed this via his verified Twitter handle on Saturday morning while giving an update on coronavirus in the state. Lagos already […]

By Vincent Ujumadu FRESH facts have emerged that the COVID-19 index case discovered in Anambra State on Friday actually visited the two major cities of Awka and Onitsha before traveling to his home town, Adazi in Anaocha local government area and was admitted at St Joseph’s Hospital in the town. “The case was first treated […]

In fulfillment of the Lagos State Government conditions for withdrawing the charges brought against them, controversial hip-hop star, Azeez Fashola popularly known as Naira Marley, former Lagos governorship aspirant, Babatunde Gbadamosi and his wife Folashade has submitted their apology letters. Vanguard can recall the Lagos State government listed three conditions for withdrawing the charges levied […]