Like HIV, COVID-19 May Never Go Away – WHO
Just like with HIV, the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) may never go away, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. Mike Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization health emergencies program, says the virus may just become one of the viruses around the world that kill people annually. “This virus just may become another endemic virus in our communities and this virus...
NAFDAC Reacts To Claims Of Herbal COVID-19 Remedies
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC has reacted to claims of the herbal COVID-19 remedies. The agency said that all claims of herbal COVID-19 remedies are domiciled in either the conventional news media or social media. In a statement by the Director-General of the agency, Mojisola Adeyeye said that they only received an application from one...
COVID-19 Vaccine Won’t Be Ready Until 2021 – PTF Boss
The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha has urged Nigerians to abide by the PTF guidelines to fight COVID-19 as a vaccine won’t be ready until 2021. Mustapha said, “Ordinarily, from the little literature I have read on COVID 19, we are not expecting any vaccine to be on the shelves until towards the end of...
FG Approves Hazard Allowances For COVID-19 Health Workers
The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, said the Federal Government, FG had signed a deal approving hazard allowances for health workers involved in the COVID-19 containment. He said the agreement had been forwarded to the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed. Ehanire noted that the Nigerian Medical Association and other stakeholders were present at the signing of...
Pathologists Deployed To Probe Strange Deaths In Bauchi, Jigawa, Others – Ehanire
The Minister for Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire has deployed pathologists to probe the strange deaths in Bauchi, Jigawa and other states where strange deaths were recorded recently. The Federal Ministry of Health assembled and trained pathologists from Sokoto, Bauchi, Jigawa, Katsina and Kano states who were thereafter sent to probe the strange deaths in the states. He said, “With regard to...
Lagos Hospitals Rejected My Brother Till He Died – Singer
A Nigerian musical artiste/ singer, Bethamary Okey, has narrated how her brother, Sylvester, was rejected by some hospitals in Lagos over fears that he could be suffering from the coronavirus disease. Bethamary said Sylvester, who had been suffering from collapsed intestine before the coronavirus pandemic, was referred to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, on April 27, 2020, by a...
BREAKING: Nigeria Records 146 New Cases Of COVID-19, Total Now 4787
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 146 new cases of COVID-19 in the country, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 4,787. The centre disclosed this on Tuesday night via its verified Twitter handle. It tweeted: “146 new cases of #COVID19; 57-Lagos 27-Kano 10-Kwara 9-Edo 8-Bauchi 7-Yobe 4-Kebbi 4-Oyo 3-Katsina 3-Niger 2-Plateau 2-Borno 2-Sokoto 2-Benue 1-Gombe 1-Enugu 1-Ebonyi...
Another Woman With Coronavirus Delivers Baby Boy At LUTH
A team of doctors, anesthetists, and nurses, at LUTH, Idi-Araba, delivered another woman, 37, with Coronavirus (COVID-19), of a baby boy weighing (2.6kg). A team of doctors, anesthetists, and nurses, at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, delivered another woman, 37, with Coronavirus (COVID-19), of a baby boy weighing (2.6kg). Also Read: COVID-19: Lagos Govt Orders Scavengers To Vacate Refuse...
WHO Meets African Traditional Medicine Experts Over COVID-19 Cure
The World Health Organisation, WHO says it met with 70 traditional medicine experts in a bid to find a cure for the COVID-19 pandemic. WHO African Region made this known via its Twitter handle on Tuesday. The health organisation said an agreement was reached with the herbal medicine experts on clinical trials of their remedies. The PUNCH reports that the meeting is...
Emefiele Challenges Nigerian Scientists To Develop Coronavirus Vaccine
Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has challenged Nigerian scientists to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus. Speaking on Tuesday at the unveiling of the THISDAY Dome Testing, Tracing & Treatment Centre in Abuja, Emefiele said the apex bank will step in with funding once the vaccine is validated by health authorities. “In order to encourage greater...
