A 101-year-old grandma who tested positive for Coronavirus has been successfully treated and discharged from Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife, Osun State, after recovering from the disease. The lady who was formerly admitted in a private hospital for treatment, was transferred to OAUTHC after it was noticed she was showing some symptoms of COVID-19 like the acute…
US President Joe Biden has announced the purchase of 200 million COVID-19 vaccines to vaccinate all Americans. During a visit to the National Institutes of Health, the Democrat said the federal government signed the final contracts on Thursday afternoon for 100 million more doses of the Moderna vaccine and 100 million more from Pfizer…
The federal government has again imposed a travel restriction on 100 travellers for violating the COVID-19 protocol. The affected persons were said to have failed to comply with the mandatory seven days post-arrival COVID-19 test. The passport numbers of the affected persons were published on Twitter on Tuesday February 9 and it was learnt…
506 new cases of Coronavirus were recorded in Nigeria on Sunday February 7, as announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. The health agency gave a breakdown of the new cases across states as follows; Ondo-90, Kwara-89, Rivers-53, Borno-45, Gombe-32, FCT-28, Imo-26, Ogun-25, Lagos-22, Kaduna-14, Kano-14, Edo-13, Osun-11, Cross River-10, Yobe-9, Ekiti-7, Kebbi-6, Nasarawa-6, Oyo-5,…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced that 1,624 new cases of Coronavirus were recorded in the country on Friday February 5. The health agency gave a breakdown of the new cases as follows; Lagos-535,Plateau-183, Osun-98, Akwa Ibom-85, FCT-83, Ondo-77, Nasarawa-72, Edo-69, Oyo-63, Rivers-52, Taraba-48, Ogun-44, Borno-31, Kwara-31, Ekiti-30, Benue-25, Kano-21, Niger-21, Kaduna-18, Abia-15, Delta-10, Bayelsa-7, Zamfara-6. …
1,138 new cases of COVID19 have been recorded in Nigeria. According to the Nigeria Center for Disease Control NCDC, Lagos recorded 377 fresh cases while the FCT recorded 172 new cases. Other states with fresh cases includes Plateau-86, Kano-84, Edo-60, Osun-47, Nasarawa-41, Imo-40, Rivers-36, Niger-32, Oyo-32, Borno-29, Kaduna-27, Delta-18, Kwara-17, Cross River-9, Ekiti-8, Bauchi-7,…
Doctors working in Ondo State government-owned hospitals have embarked on indefinite strike action. The doctors say they chose to down tools over the recent slash in the salaries of workers by the state government. Spokesperson of the Ondo Government Doctors Forum, Omolayo Olubosede, revealed this while addressing newsmen in Akure, the State capital.…
A Missouri teen who beat cancer three times has died from coronavirus complications. Aspen Deke, 17, of Kansas City, died on Saturday, Jan 30, following a months-long battle that began with her diagnosis in November, news station Fox4 reported. The high school junior had survived a rare form of acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a cancer…
1634 new cases of COVID19 have been recorded in Nigeria. According to the Nigeria Center for Disease Control NCDC, Lagos recorded 440 fresh cases of the viral disease while the FCT recorded 158 new cases. Other states with fresh cases include Anambra-160, Rivers-134, Abia-103, Oyo-90, Enugu-81, Osun-73, Gombe-54, Kwara-50, Ogun-32, Plateau-32, Akwa Ibom-31, Ondo-24, Borno-23,…
As Nigeria continues to battle the second wave of the COVID19 pandemic, the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, said the Federal government cannot force Nigerians to take the COVID19 vaccine. The Sultan who is the President-General, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, state this during the sensitisation programme on COVID-19 vaccine for Muslim…
