As health officials across the globe continue to equip the public with more preventive measures to combat the spread of coronavirus, Nigeria’s Minister of Environment,Dr Mohammed Mahmood, has called on environmental health officers in states and local governments to engage butchers to ensure they do not handle, slaughter, dress, sell and prepare meat originating from … Read more
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu has called on community, religious and traditional leaders as well as unions, associations and educationists to cooperate with the State Government in spreading basic information to curb the spread of coronavirus among their community members and adherents. Speaking on Tuesday at the stakeholders’ forum on the Management and … Read more
The Lagos State Government on Tuesday met with religious leaders in the state on the need to collaborate with government to halt the spread of the deadly Coronavirus. At the meeting which took place at the Chapel of Christ the Light, Alausa, in Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, hundreds of religious leaders under the aegis of … Read more
The Director General of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, has been quarantined for 14 days as part of measures to stop the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) from spreading into the country, it was learnt on Tuesday. The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, disclosed this in Abuja while briefing the leadership … Read more
The Lagos State Government has confirmed that a Chinese national with likely symptom of coronavirus has been quarantined. Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi disclosed this on Tuesday at a news conference to give updates on Coronavirus. Read Also: Man Sentenced To 12 Years For Attempted Rape of Minor According to him, the Chinese national … Read more
India on Tuesday suspended with immediate effect all regular visas or e-visas granted to the nationals of Italy, Iran, South Korea, Japan issued on or before March 3 to curb COVID-19, said a revised travel advisory. These visas also included visas-on-arrival for Japan and South Korea, according to the travel advisory. “Those requiring to travel … Read more
The Federal Government has vowed to deal with any foreign airline that violates coronavirus screening procedures for passengers arriving in the country. The Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, issued this warning in Abuja at the inter-ministerial meeting on coronavirus. According to a source at the meeting, the minister expressly said airlines that failed to … Read more
As Nigeria continues to set up a stringent preventive virus to repel the spread of Coronavirus from the country, the Rivers State Government has said timely dissemination of adequate information remains a vital inextricable step to contain Coronavirus ravaging most parts of the world. The state government has therefore charged the media to always be … Read more
The Honourable Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo has called on Public and Private School Head Teachers and School Administrators, as well as pupils and students in the State to adopt prompt preventive measures against the outbreak of the Coronavirus disease in Schools. She remarked that it is imperative to prevent and contain any possible … Read more
Portugal confirmed its first case of the new coronavirus on Monday. The first case is a 60-year-old man who had travelled back from northern Italy, which is the European hotspot for the virus. A second person hospitalised in Portugal with coronavirus symptoms, a 33-year-old man who had returned from eastern Spain, where several COVID-19 cases … Read more