Senegalese Ministry of Health and Social Action, on Friday reported 66 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases to 545 in the country. Among the 528 virological examinations carried out within the past 24 hours, 66 came back positive, including...
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The United States’ Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the country’s first at-home sample collection for coronavirus testing. FDA’s commissioner, Mr Stephen Hahn, said this during Friday’s news briefing by the White House coronavirus task force in Washington. Hahn said people could now collect their own samples at...
By MBAFAN ADE, Abuja – With 114 new confirmed cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) recorded by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Friday night, Nigeria now has a total of 1,095 cases of the deadly disease. The new cases were recorded in eight (8) states and the Federal Capital...
From SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Commissioner of Health , Dr. Aliyu Salihu Kwaya Bura, who is also the Secretary of the State High Powered Response Committee on Coronavirus, has announced that there are 15 active cases in Borno now as at Friday. While briefing newsmen on the...
By GRACE AUDUE, Abuja – The Idu isolation and treatment center set up by the FCT Administration for management of COVID-19 patients has received a donation of 100 beds and mattresses from the Binani Group of Companies. Receiving the items on behalf of the FCTA, the Hounourable Minister of the FCT,...
TV and film producer, Funmi Iyanda, will on Friday, April 24 at 8 pm (tonight) premiere Public Eye, a series designed to answer questions and connect Nigerians irrespective of class, politics, ethnicity and religion. With the country and indeed the whole world largely locked down because of the coronavirus...
LOUIS ODION On a good day, Abimbola Adelakun is a compelling read. But writers do have dry days, when the muse fails the quill abysmally. Such must have been the misfortune of the columnist in her April 23 outing. The tragedy was however not her failure to deliver; the...
EHIME ALEX, Lagos Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dr Boboye Oyeyemi on Friday felicitates with the Muslim faithfuls on the commencement of the Ramadan fast, assuring them of safety during the holy month. Following the sighting of the crescent of the new moon of Ramadan in parts...
The FCT Minister, Malam Muhammed Bello has approved the extension of business hours for Markets in Abuja to operate from 8a.m. to 3p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Bello in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja, explained that the directive which takes effect from Saturday, April 25, was against...
The Lagos State Government has urged the public to desist from stigmatizing health facilities that might have been exposed to COVID19 cases in the state. Dr. Abiola Idowu, Executive Secretary, State Health Facility Monitoring and Accreditation Agency (HEFAMAA), made the plea in a statement on Thursday night. Idowu was...
From SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Aliyu Salihu Kwaya Bura, has said that “there are now 11 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with seven people in isolation who are carefully being monitored and they are doing well”. Dr. Kwaya Bura who stated thisin Maiduguri on...
By GRACE AUDU, Abuja – The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), has resolved that it will invoke the relevant laws that enables it to mandatorily evacuate recalcitrant COVID-19 patients to treatment centers. This was one of the decisions taken following a meeting of the FCT COVID-19 Emergency Response Team...
The production resumption rate of major industrial firms in central China’s Hubei Province, once hit hard by the COVID-19 epidemic, has reached 98.2 per cent as of April 17, local authorities said. The rate of employees returning to their posts in the province’s major industrial firms hit 93 per...
The UN-backed Libyan government on Thursday decided to reduce the daily curfew time from 24 hours to 12 hours next week. The new curfew will start on April 28, from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. local time (1600 to 0400 GMT), during which the movement of vehicles will be...
Morocco’s Interior Ministry on Thursday announced a nationwide curfew for a month, starting on Saturday, as the COVID-19 cases rose to 3,568. This curfew is aimed at implementing social distancing, and encouraging people to stay home from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m local time (2000 GMT to 0600 GMT)...
After recording 75 COVID-19 fatalities, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, on Thursday said the country would gradually start easing lockdown restrictions from May 1. He said the government had developed an approach that determined the measures that should be in place based on the direction of the pandemic in...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says it has recorded 108 new cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. In a tweet on Thursday night, the NCDC said that the new cases had taken the total number of infections in the country to 981. The centre said that...
Tom Hanks has sent a letter and a Corona brand typewriter to an Australian boy who wrote to him about being bullied over his name, Corona, Australian television networks reported on Thursday. Corona De Vries, an eight-year-old from the Gold Coast in Queensland state wrote to the Hollywood star...