Oyo and Adamawa states on Friday discharged 19 patients after they tested negative twice for coronavirus. 11 were discharged from the Oyo State Infectious Disease Centre, Olodo, Ibadan. The patients, who had stayed at the isolation centre for between five days and two weeks, were all said to be asymptomatic all through the period of … Read more
Benue state COVID-19 index case, Susan Idoko has threatened to sue the Nigeria Center for Disease Control NCDC if she is not released from the Abuja isolation center within the next seven days. Idoko has been having an altercation with the government since she was diagnosed with the virus. She has been in isolation for … Read more
Kano state government has quarantined over 2000 Almajiris to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the state, the second hotspot of the virus after Lagos State. The Kano state Commissioner of Health Ibrahim Tsanyawa confirmed on Thursday that a team of rapid response experts have been trained to manage the Almajiris at their quarantine centres. … Read more
The Lagos State Ministry of Health has announced the recovery and discharge of 13 COVID-19 patients after testing negative twice consecutively. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos state, made the announcement on Thursday. According to him, with the discharge of the 11 males and two females, Lagos has now recorded 541 recoveries. “Good people of Lagos, … Read more
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says people within the 31 to 40 years age bracket are more likely to contract the coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. According to the centre, however, more deaths have been recorded among older people of 60 years and above. In a report made available to the News Agency … Read more
A THREE-YEAR-OLD child has tested positive for COVID-19 in Ebonyi State, becoming the eighth case recorded in the state. Governor David Umahi made this known yesterday in a state-wide broadcast after the Security/COVID-19 Committee meeting. The child who tested positive to the virus May 11is one of the two children of a couple who tested … Read more
Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has sacked a driver and queried COVID-19 team for mishandling a COVID-19 case and evacuating the victim without following safety protocol. Gov Abdulrazaq Sacks Driver for Careless Handling Of Suspected COVID-19 Patient. Watch video below 👇 pic.twitter.com/9I7haIRS0S — EkoHotBlog (@ekohotblog) May 14, 2020 The misconduct of the COVID-19 ambulance … Read more
The Kaduna State Government has released 60 more almajirai after going through 14 isolation and testing negative to the coronavirus. The Commissioner for Human Services and Social Development in the state, Hafsat Baba, disclosed this on Wednesday. According to Hafsat, the state ministry of health certified them COVID-19 free after being quarantined for 14 days … Read more
98-year-old woman in Lagos State who had been battling with the coronavirus has now fully recovered and has been discharged. The state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu announced this on Wednesday, adding that so far, she is the oldest coronavirus patient recorded in the state. According to the governor, the woman and 25 others (13 male and … Read more
US authorities warned Wednesday that Chinese hackers were attempting to steal coronavirus data on treatments and vaccines, adding fuel to Washington’s war with Beijing over the pandemic. The warning Wednesday also underscored that Washington believes China has continued broad efforts to obtain US commercial and technology secrets under President Xi Jinping’s drive to make his … Read more
Lesotho, the last African country to have been unaffected by coronavirus, on Wednesday announced it had detected its first case of COVID-19. The virus was detected on an individual among 81 people who were tested after arriving last week from Saudi Arabia and neighbouring South Africa, the health ministry said in a statement. “The Ministry … Read more
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, has retracted his statement on the cause of death of a 32-year-old Dubai evacuee On Tuesday, Professor Abayomi via his Facebook page, announced the death of a 32-year-old man and said he died from COVID-19 related complications. “Unfortunately another #COVID19 infection related death involving 32year old, … Read more
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has reacted to claims of the herbal COVID-19 remedies. The agency said that all claims of local remedies for COVID-19 are domiciled in either the conventional news media or social media. In a statement by the Director-General of the agency, Mojisola Adeyeye said that … Read more
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has announced four new cases of COVID-19 in Oyo State. NCDC made the announcement in a tweet two minutes after midnight on Wednesday morning. However, the announcement by NCDC contradicts an earlier announcement by the Executive Governor of the state, Engr. Seyi Makinde. READ ALSO :So Sad! How … Read more
Wuhan plans to conduct coronavirus tests on the Chinese city’s entire population after new cases emerged for the first time in weeks in the cradle of the global pandemic, state media reported Tuesday. Officials have been ordered to submit by noon on Tuesday plans to administer nucleic acid tests on all residents in the city … Read more
The World Health Organization on Monday hailed dwindling COVID-19 infection rates and deaths in some countries, but called on nations to show “extreme vigilance” as they begin loosening their restrictions. Swathes of Europe began the long process of reopening from coronavirus lockdowns on Monday, with officials in countries like France and Spain emboldened by declining … Read more
The Osun State government on Monday confirmed that a medical doctor, who came into the state from Lagos, has tested positive for COVID-19. The Commissioner for Health in the state, Dr Rafiu Isamotu, said in a statement that the new case was confirmed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). Isamotu said the patient … Read more
The Benue state action committee on COVID-19 says it has intercepted a Gboko bound fifteen-seater bus from Lagos, conveying one person who tested positive from Lagos but decided to return home, following advise from his mother. Briefing journalists after the expanded meeting with the state governor, Mister Samuel Ortom, chairman of the committee, Mister Benson … Read more
The United Kingdom Prime Minister, Boris Johnson has announced the extension of the Coronavirus lockdown in the UK by three more weeks The U.K. has the second-highest confirmed coronavirus death toll in the world and the highest in Europe. The country has reported more than 220,000 recorded cases and 31,000 deaths from the virus as … Read more
The Ondo State Government has given an unprecedented order to decongest the morgues at all public hospitals across the state by giving a mass burial to all unclaimed corpses, Ekohotblog reports The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Wahab Adegbenro, who disclosed this on Saturday, in Akure, the state capital, said morgues in government hospitals were … Read more