The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has revealed that there is no infrastructure to conduct COVID-19 tests upon resumption of international flights on August 29. Director-General of the NCAA, Musa Nuhu in his speech at Monday August 24, briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 said operators in the aviation sector had aligned with the pre-departure testing protocol stipulated by […]
A 33-year-old man living in Hong Kong has been reinfected with Covid-19 for the second time this year, according to preliminary research. He is the “first case” documented of getting coronavirus twice. He had symptoms the first time, but no obvious symptoms the second time, the team at the University of Hong Kong reported Monday. The pre-print study […]
A 28 year old woman, known as Mayra Ramirez has become the very first Coronavirus survivor to receive a double lung transplant in the United States. Ramirez, experiencing Coronavirus symptoms, arrived at the Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s emergency room on April 26 and within minutes, her terrible experience with the disease began. “All I remember was […]
Nigerians have expressed shock after a Twitter user shared a pack of Hydroxychloroquine sulfate and claimed it was sold for 50,000 Naira in a Port Harcourt Pharmacy. The drug became highly sort after when a Nigerian-trained US-based medical doctor said she has used a combination of hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and Zithromax to treat over 350 Covid-19 patients and […]
As students in exiting classes prepare to resume for academic activities nationwide on Monday, August 3, the Ogun state government has mandated all students in boarding houses to undergo Malaria and COVID-19 tests as that would make them admissible into their boarding houses. In a statement released today August 1, Ronke Soyombo, the Special Adviser […]
THE leadership of Hospital and Prison Welfare Initiative (HPWI) has called on the federal and state governments to, as a matter of urgency, de-congest the correctional centers, attributable to COVID-19. As a result, the group urged President Muhammadu Buhari to order the discharge of minors under the age of 18 years from the federal correctional centres. The group said within […]
A German shepherd in New York that was the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in a dog in the U.S. has died. Robert and Allison Mahoney of Staten Island told National Geographic that their 7-year-old shepherd, Buddy, developed breathing problems in mid-April after Robert had been sick with the Coronavirus for several weeks. A veterinarian tested Buddy in […]
The man, David T. Hines, 29, of Miami, was arrested Friday July 24 and charged with one count of bank fraud, one count of making false statements to a financial institution and one count of engaging in transactions in unlawful proceeds, the Department of Justice said in a news release. Federal agents seized the car, […]
A chief Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Dr. Abubakar Danladi, has claimed that over 10,000 health workers across Africa have tested positive for COVID-19 pandemic. He added that 200 Nigerian health workers and 10 doctors have so far been killed by the disease. Danladi, who stated these in Kaduna, said the development, coupled with lockdown, reduction […]
Coronavirus survivors are likely to have immunity against the disease for six months, Sweden’s top epidemiologist has claimed. Dr Anders Tegnell, who has guided the nation through the pandemic without calling for a lockdown, says he hasn’t seen evidence of people getting infected twice since the start of the pandemic in December 2019. He added that […]