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The number of coronavirus cases in Africa rose to 6,470 on Thursday, the Africa Centre for Disease Control (ACDC) has reported. The figure rose from the 5,940 cases reported on April 1 in 49 African countries where coronavirus cases have ...

Iranian Parliamentary Speaker Ali Larijani has tested positive for COVID-19 and is now in quarantine, the semi-official Isna news agency reported on Thursday, as the number of cases in the country surpassed 50,000. The 62-year-old has been speaker since 2008 ...

Google on Thursday said it is pumping $6.5 million into fact-checkers and nonprofits as it ramps up its the battle against coronavirus misinformation. Fact-checking organisations, which often operate on relatively small budgets, are seeing a surge in demand for their ...

An Indian couple have named their newborn twins as Corona and Covid — names connected with the pandemic raging in the world at the moment. For the couple based in Raipur, in the state of Chhattisgarh, the two words may ...

One of the daughters of President Muhammadu Buhari has reunited with her family after she returned from isolation. The lady, whose name was not disclosed, reunited with her family on Thursday after she went into isolation for 14 days, following ...

Limited global stocks of two anti-malarial drugs could wreck plans to use the medicines, currently in clinical trials, to treat COVID-19, doctors cautioned on Thursday. Around the world, countries are expanding access to chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), which are ...

Spain has passed another grim coronavirus milestone after the number of deaths exceeded 10,000. The country, the second-worst hit in terms fatalities, has also lost nearly 900,000 jobs. The US, too, has registered 6.6m new jobless benefit claims – a ...

A part of Calabar’s biggest shopping mall — SPAR mall has collapsed. Part of the edifice collapsed today destroying several cars worth millions of naira. The cause of the collapse has not been ascertained as at the time of filing ...

Indonesia has released 18,000 inmates in a desperate bid to stop coronavirus from rampaging through its notoriously overcrowded prison system, authorities said on Thursday. The mass release comes days after the Southeast Asian nation said it would free more than ...

After eight days of isolation and treatment, the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Prof. Jesse Otegbayo, has tested negative for COVID-19. , The Nation gathered through the Head of Public Relations Unit of the ...

As coronavirus leaves the world’s major cities deserted by humans, animals have been spotted enjoying the peace and quiet during the COVID-19 pandemic. The global outbreak of the virus has seen many countries such as Spain, Italy, Japan and Chile, ...

An unknown soldier has shot an unidentified young man dead in Delta State, south-south Nigeria, the police in the state have said. The incident occurred on Thursday at Ugbuwangue community in Warri South Local Government Area (LGA) of the state, ...

Veteran Nollywood actor Sadiq Abubakar Daba’s health has worsened. The actor who has been diagnosed with Leukemia and prostate cancer is about to lose his sight, Nigerian Journalist, Olutade Simon claims. Tweeting at the Vice-President, Ogun and Lagos state Governors, ...

Confirmed cases of coronavirus in Nigeria have now risen to 184 on Thursday. This is as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC recorded 10 new cases in Lagos and Abuja as at 08:00 pm on 2nd April. Seven of ...

The global confirmed cases for COVID-19 have now crossed the one million mark globally with the United States of America, China, Italy and Spain highest hit nations. The total number of confirmed cases as at the time of filing thing ...

The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, says Nigeria now has the capacity to test 1,500 people a day for coronavirus (COVID-19). The Minister made the comment at Thursday’s briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja. “With ...

Kwara State Technical Committee on Corona Virus (COVID-19) will Thursday night begin fumigation of markets across the state. According to the statement issued last night by Spokesman of the Committee Rafiu Ajakaye, the fumigation takes place between 7 p.m. and ...

Lagos State Government, on Thursday, discharged 11 more patients from the Infectious Disease Hospital, IDH, Yaba, after being tested negative twice for Coronavirus (COVID-19) and have been allowed to return home to their families. The latest figure brings to 18 ...

The Portuguese face at least another two weeks in lockdown after the government decided Wednesday to extend confinement measures as deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic near 200. The restrictions were first imposed on the 10-million population on March 19 but ...

Richard Mofe-Damijo (RMD) has made an open appeal to the Nigerian Customs, asking them to please give out the plenty seized rice, vegetable oil and other food items they seized in the past to Nigerians to ease their lack this ...

A boy who went missing while hiking on an isolated trail with his mom has tragically been found dead by searchers, say Alaska State Troopers. Jaxson Brown, five, went walking with Jennifer Treat, 36, along Lunch Creek Trail near Ketchikan ...

Drake was accused of keeping his son secret because he felt ashamed to have welcomed a baby with a former porn star he’d only met twice before the birth. The Canadian music star had a baby boy named Adonis with ...

A former Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun has supported the state government with N25 million to fight Coronavirus Sen. Amosun, in a letter dated March 31, written to Governor Dapo Abiodun, said the donation was a personal contribution to the ...

Residents of Ile-Ife, Osun State have been charged to stay indoor throughout today (Thursday) as a masquerade (Oro) would be performing traditional rite to cleanse the land of the deadly Coronavirus. According to a public service announcement jingle this morning, ...

The Presidency has taken a swipe at the Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, over his comments on the 14-day lockdown ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari, saying that he is not an expert in that area. The Presidency told Prof. Soyinka ...