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The Ogun State government has deployed a mobile application for residents to undergo assessment on an individual basis in the event of being infected with COVID-19. This comes a month after the state launched an updated mobile application for health ...

Management of Benue State University Teaching Hospital says it issued sack letter on only three, not 30 doctors, as the Association of Resident Doctors have claimed. The association at the hospital has threatened to go on strike if the hospital ...

A few hours after the inauguration of a 60-bed isolation centre for Coronavirus (COVID-19) patients, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, says it has admitted four patients with the virus. Prof. Wasiu Adeyemo, the LUTH Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee, disclosed this ...

The Lagos State Police Command has released on bail the governorship candidate of the Action Democratic Party in the state in the 2019 gubernatorial election, Babatunde Gbadamosi, and his wife. The couple were released on Tuesday alongside Naira Marley, after ...

A 30-something New Yorker seeking a “germ free” girlfriend during the coronavirus pandemic has hung dating flyers along city running paths, including in Central Park, as a more “targeted” alternative to searching online apps. The man who prefers to only ...

Israel’s health minister has been accused of flouting his own lockdown rules after continuing to attend group prayers – despite a ban on gatherings. Yaakov Litzman has tested positive for Covid-19, causing chaos in Israel’s highest political office as leaders ...

The result of COVID-19 second test done for the chairman of the governing board of the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Ibrahim Shetima, has returned positive. Shetima had been in isolation at a special ward in the UCH after he tested ...

A Virginia pastor who criticized the “mass hysteria” surrounding the coronavirus pandemic has died of the illness. Landon Spradlin, of Gretna, a small town halfway between Lynchburg and Danville started to feel sick while in New Orleans, where he went ...

Sickening footage shows a postman wipe his nose and rub it around a doorway while a person self-isolates inside. The clip has been doing the rounds on social media, where viewers have expressed their outrage. Royal Mail say they have ...

The Katsina State Government has lifted the suspension on Friday congregational prayer with immediate effect. This was announced by the Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Mustapha Inuwa, in a statement made released Tuesday in Katsina. The statement said: “Following ...

Grandaughter Jade Elrick, 26, said: “We obviously weren’t allowed to see her – the hospital said she was in a room which she didn’t like, she didn’t understand why we weren’t able to visit. “We tried to call but the ...

Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State has announced the death of the state’s first COVID-19 patient. He is Dr. Aminu Yakubu, a Daura based private Medical practitioner who recently returned from Lagos to the state.

Oyo state has recorded two additional cases of coronavirus. The disclosure was made by the State Chairman of COVID-19 Task Force who also double as the State Governor, Seyi Makinde. According to the Governor, one of the new cases is ...

Spring graduation ceremonies in Japan have been cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic, but students at one school were able to attend remotely by controlling avatar robots while logged on at home. The robots, dubbed “Newme” by developer ANA Holdings, ...

WhatsApp on Tuesday placed new limits on message forwarding as part of an effort to curb the spread of misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic. The new policy limits users to forwarding certain messages to one “chat” at a time, aiming ...

Plateau State Government has directed a total lockdown of the state from 12 midnight of Thursday, April 9, 2020 to 11pm of Wednesday, April 15, to enable it carry out a state-wide fumigation across the 17 local government areas of ...

The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure has produced the first made in Nigeria ventilators. The development is aimed at combating the COVID-19 disease in the country. Ventilator is a vital equipment in the treatment of coronavirus patients. NASENI ...

At least five people have been killed and several others injured on Monday at Kakuri and Trikania community in Kaduna South Local Government Area of the state. The incident happened when police operatives and members of the Civilian Joint Taskforce ...

President Uhuru Kenyatta has directed the Ministry of Sports, Culture and Heritage to set aside Ksh.100 million to to cushion local artistes from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Addressing the Nation on the state of the COVID-19 outbreak in ...

The Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has remanded the two pilots of Carveton Helicopters, Samuel Ugorji and Samuel Buhari in prison custody, for allegedly disobeying the Executive Order issued by the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, ...

Tragedy struck in the early hours of Monday in the Angwa Tiv area of the Kogi State capital, Lokoja when a 23-year-old simply identified as Bayo committed suicide. Bayo, according to a source who resides on an adjacent street, was ...

Seven patients receiving treatment for COVID-19 have tested negative and discharged in Abuja. Muhammad Bello, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, just broke the news. Bello said, “Let me begin by appreciating the high level of compliance so far exhibited ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday night recorded sixteen new cases of Coronavirus. Ten cases were recorded in Lagos; two cases were recorded in the FCT, two in Oyo, one in Delta and one in Katsina state. ...

A Romanian maternity unit was being investigated on Tuesday after 10 newborns tested positive for the novel coronavirus, with the suspicion they contracted the virus from healthcare staff. “The mothers tested negative, but the babies tested positive so we have ...

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has said private hospitals are not allowed to treat COVID-19. Abayomi was speaking in Alausa, Ikeja, in reaction to a COVID-19 patient who died at a private hospital in Lagos. He ...