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...
Madagascar Herbal Drug: Nigeria Has No Shame – Pharmacists Blast Buhari Administration
The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) says it received the news that the Buhari administration is about to import a herbal concoction called COVID Organics (CVO) from Madagascar with utter disbelief. Sam Ohuabunwa, PSN President, in a strongly worded statement on Tuesday, declared that Nigeria displayed that it has no shame. Noting that the body was not against any drug that is proven...
FG Lists Lagos, FCT, Kano, Ogun, Kaduna, Sokoto For WHO Drug Trials
The Federal Government has said that Lagos, FCT, Ogun, Kaduna, Sokoto and Kano states have enrolled on the World Health Organisation (WHO) treatment regimen on solidarity drug trials. The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, said this on Monday in Abuja, at the 29th joint national briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19. Daily Trust reports that the...
65 Almajiri Children Among 72 COVID-19 Patients In Kaduna
The government of Kaduna says two police officers and 65 almajiri children are among the 72 active cases receiving treatment for COVID-19 in the state. ABN TV reports that in a statement on Monday, Muyiwa Adekeye, special adviser on media to Nasir El-Rufai, the governor, said seven of the cases have a history of travels outside the state. Adekeye said since...
Catholic Church Offers All Its 425 Hospitals In Nigeria As COVID-19 Isolation Centres
The Catholic Bishop Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has offered all its 425 health facilities across the country as isolation centres for COVID-19. Boss Mustapha, secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), who disclosed this at the presidential task force briefing on Monday said state governments can now take advantage of the facilities. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) had...
60-Year-Old Nigerian Nurse Dies Of COVID-19 In UK
An ‘exceptional’ mother-of-four nurse who devoted her life to terminally-ill children has become the latest healthcare worker to be killed by COVID-19 in Britain, the Daily Mail of UK reported. Eyitolami Olaolorun had been a nurse for 40 years, most recently working at Wellington Hospital, a private centre in St John’s Wood, caring for young patients who were critically or...
Nigeria Records 242 New Cases Of COVID-19, Total Now 4,641
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on Monday, announced that the country has recorded 242 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in Nigeria to 4,641. Also Read: COVID-19: Gregory University Donates 10,000 PPEs To FG The NCDC disclosed this on its verified Twitter handle and website on Monday night. https://twitter.com/NCDCgov/status/1259978042425868296?s=20
55 COVID-19 Patients Recover In Madagascar After Treatment With “Herbal Drug”
At least 55 COVID-19 patients in Madagascar have recovered after being treated with the country’s herbal remedy for the disease. 55 COVID-19 patients said to have been “cured” with the drug — which is bottled as herbal tea — rose after three recoveries were announced on Saturday. According to L’Express de Madagascar, the patients were among those that were administered the drug...
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