A total of 544 new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has been confirmed in Nigeria, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) disclosed late Sunday. In a post on its Twitter handle, the centre said 199 of the cases were recorded in Lagos State, 65 in Ebonyi State, 47 in Oyo State, 46 in […]
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Nigeria, on Saturday, recorded 603 new coronavirus (COVID-19) cases, raising the nation’s total confirmed infections above the 28,000 mark. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced this in a late-night post via its verified Twitter handle on Saturday. It noted that the country now has 28,167 confirmed COVID-19 cases out of which 634 people […]
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Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, has accused politicians of playing games with the lives of Nigerians amid the pandemic called COVID-19. He was speaking on Thursday while playing host to the Board of Trustees of Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation who paid him a courtesy call in his Lugard House office in Lokoja. Bello […]
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Nigeria has recorded 790 fresh cases of Coronavirus. According to data from the NCDC the cases were spread across 19 states including FCT, with Delta accounting for the highest number of infections for the day with 166 cases as the Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa and wife tested positive. The states with the 790 new cases are […]
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Nigeria recorded 779 fresh cases of Coronavirus on Saturday, 27th June, 2020. A data made available by the Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) showed that the cases were spread across 22 states including FCT, with Lagos accounting for the highest number of infections for the day having 285 cases. According to the NCDC the […]
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The government of the state of Lagos has disclosed that two new isolation facilities in Yaba and Ikeja would be completed and opened next week for the management of Coronavirus patients in the state. Despite the increasing number of patients, the Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, said at a press briefing on Friday that […]
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The executive Governor of Delta State Ifeanyi Okowa and his wife, Edith, have gone into isolation following the news that one of their daughters tested positive for Coronavirus. The governor made this known via his Twitter handle on Friday. He wrote: “Earlier today, Edith and I received the news that one of our daughters has […]
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Nigeria has recorded 594 fresh cases of the novel Coronavirus infection on Thursday, June 25th, 2020. According to the data from the NCDC the cases were spread across 22 states including FCT, with Lagos accounting for the highest number of infections for the day with 159 cases. According to the NCDC the cases are, Lagos(159), […]
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10 employees of Atlanta-based Delta Airlines have died of coronavirus (COVID-19), while 500 others have tested positive. Ed Bastian, chief executive officer of the airline, confirmed the spread of the disease among its employees during the company’s annual shareholder meeting. “We lost 10 employees to the coronavirus; every one of them breaks my heart,” he said. “Among […]
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The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC), on Sunday announced 436 new cases of COVID-19, taking the total infection in Nigeria to 20,244. According to the agency in a tweet, of the new cases, 169 were recorded in Lagos, 52 in Oyo and 31 in Plateau. Other affected states are Imo with 29 cases, Kaduna […]
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