By Soyinka, Cabral, Kane, et al. The threats that are hanging over the African continent with regards to the spread of COVID-19 demand our individual and collective attention. The situation is critical. Yet this is not about mitigating another ‘African’ humanitarian crisis but to diffuse the potentially damaging effects of a virus that has shaken […]
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The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) on Friday announced four new deaths from complications of coronavirus (COVID-19) and 51 fresh cases of the disease. The agency broke the news of highest toll confirmed in a single day in Nigeria via tweet on Friday night. There are currently 493 cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria, 159 […]
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Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje has declared a lockdown of the state over the increasing spread of the novel Coronavirus in the state. This was disclosed in a post on Twitter by Salihu Tanko Yakasai, Special Adviser on Media to the Governor, on Tuesday. Kano State currently has four confirmed Coronavirus cases. According to Yakasai, […]
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Lagos State Government has announced the discharge of six more COVID-19 patients from its isolation Centre after they were declared free of the virus. Lagos Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu announced this on this social media pages on Monday. According to the Governor, the discharged patients include one female and five males. With the discharge of the […]
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Edo state government has established mobile courts to prosecute violators of guidelines put in place to check the spread of coronavirus disease in the state. Offenders would be tried under the Edo State Dangerous Infectious Diseases (Emergency Prevention) Regulations 2020. Recall that Governor Obaseki had on Tuesday, March 31, 2020, signed the Quarantine Regulations, made […]
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Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on Saturday announced 13 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the country’s total number of infections to 318. 13 new cases of #COVID19 have been reported; 11 in Lagos, 1 in Delta & 1 in Kano As at 9:30pm 11th April there are 318 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported […]
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The Federal Government of Nigeria has urged state governments not to relax either the lockdown orders declared by the Federal Government or the stay-at-home order imposed on some states by their governors. This appeal was made by Dr. Sani Aliyu, National Secretary of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, at a press briefing in Abuja […]
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday night announced 22 new COVID-19 cases. The agency broke the news in a tweet, stating that 15 were confirmed in Lagos, four in the federal capital territory (FCT), two in Bauchi and one in Edo. A total of 276 cases have so far been confirmed across […]
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Lagos State’s Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, has another the death of another COVID-19 patient in Nigeria. While making the announcement on Twitter on Wednesday, Professor Abayomi stated that the victim is a 66-year-old citizen of the United Kingdom. According to Prof Abayomi, the victim travelled from India via Dubai and entered Lagos on […]
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Lagos State Government, on Tuesday took delivery of three ambulances donated to the state by the World Health Organisation (WHO). In a tweet on Tuesday, the United Nations health agency explained that this was to support the government’s effort in curbing the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in the state. WHO added that the donation of […]
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