BREAKING: Prime Minister Boris Johnson Tests Positive For Coronavirus
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus. Mr. Johnson said he developed mild symptoms over the past 24 hours, including temperature and cough. He is self-isolating in Downing Street but said he will "continue to lead the government's response via video-conference as we fight this virus". Mr. Johnson was last seen on Thursday night, clapping outside No 10 as part...
COVID-19: Hon. Nkole Demonstrates Proper Hand Washing, Cautions Constituents On Hygiene
The member representing Arochukwu/Ohafia federal constituency, Abia state Rt. Hon. Uko Ndukwe Nkole has advised members of his constituency to observe a high level of hygiene in the spate of the dreaded COVID 19 ravaging the world. He gave this advise recently during a stakeholder meeting of the People's Democratic Party, PDP in Arochukwu. While demonstrating proper way of handwashing to...
COVID-19: Buhari Approves N10bn Grant For Lagos, N5bn For NCDC
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the immediate release of a 10 billion Naira grant to Lagos State, the epic centre of COVID-19 as a measure to increase its capacity to control and contain the outbreak of the virus. He also ordered that the sum of a 5 billion Naira special intervention fund be released to the Nigeria Center for Disease...
We Are Ready To Contain Coronavirus – Abia Govt [PHOTOS]
Abia State government says it is 100 percent above many states of the federation in its readiness to contain the dreaded Corona virus scourge should it manifest in the State. Conducting journalists round the isolation centres located within Amachara Specialist Hospital, Umuahia, which is one of the three designated in the State, the State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Joe Osuji,...
37 Italian Doctors Have Died Of Coronavirus
Coronavirus crisis has killed 37 doctors in Italy, while more than 6,000 medical workers have been infected, it emerged today. Three more doctors died of coronavirus yesterday, in Bergamo, Foggia and Naples, the Italian Federation of Medical Professionals said, bringing the total to 37. The head of an Italian research institute said today that 6,205 health workers had caught the disease...
BREAKING: 6 Lagos Coronavirus Patients Ready For Discharge
Six patients being treated for coronavirus have recovered in Lagos. Tunde Ajayi, the Special Assistant to Lagos state governor on health, made this known via Twitter on Thursday. According to him, the patients are set to be discharged soon. He wrote: “Six of our #COVID19 inpatients have recovered and will be discharged soon. There is something Lagos is doing right. Lagos takes...
[BREAKING] COVID-19: FG To Stop Inter-State Travels
Federal Government says it will stop interstate travels including railway. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed who stated this at an ongoing press briefing in Abuja this afternoon said the government will also deploy firefighting equipment and personnel to fumigate markets, towns and cities. He insisted that with time running out, the government will not hesitate to enforce compliance...
COVID-19: Abia CP Warns Against Undermining Govt Instructions, Releases Helplines
The Commissioner of Police Abia State Command, CP Ene Okon, has called on the people of the state to always abide by the instructions from the government of the state under the leadership of Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu and the police authorities as a measure to curtail the spread of COVID-19. This is contained in a release signed by the state...
First UK Prisoner Dies From COVID-19
An 84-year-old sex offender with underlying health conditions is the first prisoner in the UK to be killed by the coronavirus, reports suggest. The convict was one of the country's oldest inmates and died at HMP Littlehey in Cambridgeshire three days ago. It is understood the deadly virus was only detected in the man, who has not been named after he died in...
BREAKING: Nigeria COVID-19 Cases Jump To 51 As NCDC Confirms Five New Cases
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed that cases of coronavirus in the country have hit 51. The NCDC on its website said, “On the 25th March 25, 2020, Six new confirmed cases of COVID-19 was recorded in Nigeria. “Till date, 50 cases have been confirmed, two cases have been discharged and one death from COVID-19 recorded in Nigeria “Of...
