BREAKING: Spain Covid-19 Death Toll Overtakes China
Spain has Thursday overtaken China to record the world's second-highest death toll from coronavirus. Spanish officials reported 738 new deaths today, the country's biggest daily jump so far, taking the total from 2,696 to 3,434. The figure is now higher than the 3,285 people who have died in mainland China, where the outbreak began in late 2019. Italy still has the world's highest...
BREAKING: Biafra Leader Tests Positive For Coronavirus
The National President of the Biafra Nations Youth League, BNYL, Princewill Chimezie Richard has tested positive for COVID-19. The group disclosed this in a statement to Daily Post on Monday by BNYL Press Secretary, Richard Dianabasi. According to Dianabasi, the BNYL leader tested positive because he received his brother who returned from Sweden days ago “and who also tested positive at...
Nigeria’s Polio-Free Status Still Intact, FG Assures Nigerians
Following reports in some sections of the media that there is an outbreak of a new polio variant in some states, the federal government has urged Nigerians not to panic, insisting that there is no case of Wild Polio Virus (WPV) anywhere in the country since the last case in 2016. Describing the report as a gross misrepresentation of the...
Otti Allocates N1bn For Abia’s Health Insurance Initiative
The Abia State Health Insurance Scheme has received N1 billion from Governor Alex Otti, after the State Executive Council approved the scheme's official rollout. This is as the Governor has approved the appointment of Dr. Emmanuel Mereibeole, who retired recently from the Federal Ministry of Aviation as a Permanent Secretary, as Special Adviser on Projects to oversee the Abia Airport...
FG Lifts COVID-19 Restrictions, Midnight Curfew
Federal Government has eased the nationwide midnight curfew and llimitations on gatherings along with other restrictions imposed in 2019 to curb the spread of coronavirus. This is after the country ...
Coronavirus: Non-medical Masks Now Recommended For Canadians, Says Officials
As many provinces across Canada begin to loosen public health restrictions and gradually open their economies, federal public health officials are now officially recommending that people wear non-medical masks in situations where physical distancing isn’t possible. After initially advising against wearing non-medical masks, federal health officials said in April that people who don’t have symptoms of COVID-19, the disease caused by...
BREAKING: Israel Confirms Its 1st Case Of Coronavirus
The virus was confirmed in a citizen who flew home from Japan earlier this week after being quarantined on the stricken cruise ship Diamond Princess. “One of the passengers who returned home from the cruise ship in Japan tested positive in a checkup by the health ministry’s central laboratory,” a ministry statement said. The statement added that the other dozen Israeli passengers...
BREAKING: Buhari Meets Minister Of Health, NCDC DG In Abuja [Photos, Video]
President Muhammadu Buhari has been briefed on the COVID-19 situation in the country by Osagie Ehanire, minister of health, and Chikwe Ihekweazu, director-general of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). He was briefed on Saturday afternoon at his residence in the state house, Abuja. TheCable previously reported that Buhari was in his office on Wednesday before it was fumigated on Thursday. He...
Warning Strike: We’ve Not Been Invited To Any Meeting With FG – Doctors
The President, National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), Dr Emeka Orji, says the medical body has not received any invitation for a meeting to resolve the ongoing warning strike. NARD began a five-day warning strike on Wednesday (today) and it is expected to last till Monday. NARD had on 29 April issued a two-week ultimatum to the government to meet its...
Coronavirus Pandemic May End Soon, Virus To Stay, Top Sanitary Doctor Says
The coronavirus pandemic may end in the near future yet the virus itself won’t go away, Head of the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing Anna Popova said in an interview with TASS. "We hope so," she sai...
