archiveApril 2020

The Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH),Idi-Araba, Lagos, on Saturday confirmed the death of a COVID-19 patient in the hospital. Prof. Chris Bode, LUTH Chief Medical Director, made this known in statement issued by Prof. Wasiu Adeyemo, Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee (CMAC) of LUTH, on his behalf. According to him, a...

The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, on Friday, said that Chinese doctors, nurses and medical experts would arrive in Nigeria in a few days to assist in the fight against COVID-19. The minister said this during a briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja. Cases in...

  The Osun State government has launched a manhunt for six persons with confirmed infection of COVID-19 who were said to have escaped from an isolation centre in Ejigbo on Friday night. The escaped six persons were said to belong to a cluster of COVID-19 cases who returned to their...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed deaths of two COVID-19 patients in Lagos and Edo. NCDC, through its verified Twitter account on Friday night, however, did not give further details about the patient’s sex or medical history. It added that 20 new cases of COVID-19 have been...

  The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says it has traced 6,700 contacts in Nigeria over the novel Coronavirus pandemic outbreak in the country. Director-General of NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, made the disclosure at the Presidential Taskforce briefing on COVID-19 in the country, on Friday in Abuja. “Nigeria has been...

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has invited Nigeria and other members of the group for an emergency meeting scheduled for Monday next week in an attempt to strike a deal to cut production output to strengthen crude oil prices. The meeting, which is expected to be via video...

At least 1,169 persons have died of Coronavirus in the last 24 hours in the United States – the single daily highest anywhere in the world. With 5,926 deaths and 245,570 confirmed cases, the US faces the toughest challenge among nations confronted with the virus. This comes amidst concerns for...

  Amidst a lockdown of their country due to the COVID-19 pandemic, an Indian couple has named their newborn twins ‘Corona,’ a boy and ‘Covid,’ a girl. The couple based in Raipur, capital of Chhattisgarh, a state in central India, said, to them, the names connote the triumph they had...

    Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has ordered the disbursement of 9 billion riyals (N910billion) to private-sector workers amid the COVID-19 outbreak even as it has postponed some government fees and taxes. The government said this was to deter companies from laying off staff. The emergency stimulus package was announced...

Former director-general of the Nigeria Law School Dr Kole Abayomi has died in the United Kingdom (UK) after contracting coronavirus. Abayomi died on Thursday, April 3, a statement by the secretary of the Body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria (BOSAN), Seyi Sowemimo, SAN, disclosed. “The BOSAN Secretariat wishes to announce...