According to data obtained from the World Health Organisation, no fewer than 4,012 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Ghana. The country witnessed increased cases of the virus after lifting a three-week lockdown in its two major cities on April 20. President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana cited improved coronavirus testing and the “severe” impact […]
The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, said on Friday at the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja that the Federal Government would dispatch its technical teams to validate the claims by Kogi and Cross River states that they did not have COVID-19 cases. He said the initial team dispatched […]
The nationwide tally of confirmed COVID-19 cases in India crossed 62,700 on Saturday and the death toll topped the 2,000-mark after hundreds more tested positive for the infection in several states, while worries mounted globally about re-emergence of the outbreak after reopening of locked down economies. Adding to the concerns, the fresh cases included at […]
Argentina missed a Friday deadline to reach an agreement with international creditors to restructure its massive debt, but negotiations will continue, its minister for the economy said. The two sides have been deadlocked over Argentina’s $65 billion debt, with the three main bondholder groups rejecting a government restructuring proposal, saying they were unwilling to swallow […]
Angry coronavirus patients reportedly attacked and detained some medical personnel at the isolation centre in Kwanar Dawaki, Kano State. The COVID-19 patients who were protesting alleged poor conditions in which they were kept, locked up two doctors and a nurse for hours on Thursday. A former chairman of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Kano Branch, Prof. Aminu Mohammed, broke the news of the […]
The Lagos State Government has said it will commence chloroquine clinical trial for the treatment of the novel coronavirus disease within the next one week or thereabouts. This is sequel to the approval by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control that chloroquine could be used for the clinical trial treatment of […]
A personal assistant to Ivanka Trump, daughter of US President Donald Trump has reportedly tested positive for Coronavirus. A source familiar with the matter told CNN that the assistant who works in a personal capacity for US President Donald Trump’s daughter, has not been around Ivanka Trump in several weeks. It was gathered that the Personal Assistant who […]
Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has bowed to the pressure of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) in the state over hazard allowance and life insurance packages. The ARD at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, had last week commenced a three-day warning strike to press home the demand for hazard allowance and life […]
Two people have died and 22 others were injured as they fled their homes in panic following a magnitude 5.1 earthquake that struck northern Iran on Friday. Among the dead were a 21-year-old woman in Tehran who suffered heart failure, and a 60-year-old man in the city of Damavand, east of the capital, killed by […]
The Kogi State Commissioner for Health, Dr Saka Haruna, has said the state is under pressure to declare that it has COVID-19 cases where there is none. The commissioner made the claims in a statement on Thursday. He, however, said the state would not succumb to the pressure. The statement followed a report, which claimed […]