The US state of Missouri on Tuesday sued China’s leadership over the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), seeking damages over what it described as deliberate deception and insufficient action to stop the pandemic. The first-of-a-kind state lawsuit comes amid calls in Congress to punish China and a campaign by President Donald Trump to focus on Beijing’s role, […]

Eight babies and toddlers at a Tokyo care centre have tested positive for the coronavirus after a staff member contracted the disease, its operator said on Wednesday. Tokyo Saiseikai Central Hospital, which operates the facility, said the affected children had been hospitalised, while another 21 tested negative and were under observation. The facility is for […]

The Federal Government had on Tuesday warned Nigerians against resort to the use of a ‘fake vaccine’ produced in Kano for the treatment of the Novel Coronavirus. Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed gave the warning in Abuja during the daily briefing of the Presidential Taskforce on Covid-19. He said; “In the absence of vaccine […]

A COVID-19 vaccine developed at the University of Oxford will be trialled on humans in the UK from Thursday this week. Health Secretary Matt Hancock today said he was ‘throwing everything at’ the attempt to develop the first vaccine in the world. The Government will give the scientists an extra £20million to help with their […]

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on Tuesday, reported the nation has confirmed 117 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), a pandemic outbreak in the country. This brings the total number of cases confirmed to 782. According to the NCDC, 59 cases were discovered in Lagos, 23 in FCT, 14 in Kano, six in Borno, […]

A court sitting in the Ugandan capital Kampala has convicted six Chinese nationals for escaping from COVID-19 quarantine back in March. Nakawa Court Chief Magistrate Ruth Nabaasa convicted them upon their own plea of being guilty of disobeying lawful orders, an act likely to spread infection of a disease, The Daily Monitor, a top privately-run […]

The World Health Organisation, WHO, said yesterday that all available evidence suggests that the novel coronavirus originated in bats in China late last year.

Mainland China reported on Wednesday 30 new coronavirus cases, 23 of which were so-called imported cases involving travellers from overseas, up from 11 a day earlier. READ ALSO: UK PM Johnson under fire over handling of coronavirus crisis The National Health Commission said in a statement the number of new asymptomatic patients, who are infected […]

As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to increase in Nigeria, the United Nations, yesterday, announced that it received 1.2 million euro from the European Union for provision of life-saving tools to tackle the pandemic in Nigeria.

Governor  Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, yesterday confirmed the eighth case of the new coronavirus in the state as another staff of the World Health Organisations, WHO, tested positive to the disease.