The Head of Optometry Department, Imo State University, Prof. Frank Iwuagwu, has said about six million Nigerians are at risk of going blind, as a result of untreated glaucoma. “Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases characterised by silent and gradual loss of vision,” Iwuagwu said. He disclosed this in Owerri, while briefing journalists on
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Iran has reported another 11 new coronavirus deaths. Fox Channel reported that at least 210 people have died in Iran from the new coronavirus, BBC Persian reported Friday citing unnamed sources in the Islamic republic’s health system, promoting an angry denial from a health ministry spokesman. Most of the people died in the capital Tehran
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China on Sunday reported 573 new infections, the highest figure in a week after a dip. All but three of them were in Hubei province, of which Wuhan is the capital. The virus has spread to more than 60 countries around the globe, prompting the World Health Organization to raise its risk assessment to its
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Mexico confirmed its fourth case of the new coronavirus on Saturday — all linked to recent travel to Italy — after a young woman tested positive for infection. Health authorities said the 20-year-old from northern Coahuila state was carrying the virus without showing symptoms. She had recently travelled to Milan and was now under isolation
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The United States President, Donald Trump said Saturday that despite the first death on US soil from the new coronavirus, the threat to Americans remained low and there was no reason for “panic.” Trump confirmed that the first fatality, announced by officials in Washington state, was a woman in her late 50s. She lived in
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The Lagos State Government on Saturday said it had moved the coronavirus patient to a better facility where he would be comfortable. It was earlier reported that the patient was very upset about where he was isolated and had threatened to flee. The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, who made the latest disclosure,
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The United States of America health officials on Friday reported a fourth case of novel coronavirus of unknown origin, indicating the disease was spreading in the country. This is coming barely a week after the US President, Donald Trump said America was doing a great job and there was no case of the novel virus
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Following the detection of the first case of the novel Coronavirus disease and the placing in quarantine of the patient, identified as a 44-year-old Italian, at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Yaba, Lagos, a health worker at the Mainland Hospital, Yaba, said on Friday that the patient was angry and attempted to escape, given the
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Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called Thursday on public schools to close nationwide from March 2 to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. “The government considers the health and safety of children above anything else,” Abe said. “We request all primary, junior high and high schools… across the nation to close temporarily from March
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The Lagos State Government has affirmed that the Chinese citizen presented at the Reddington Hospital, Ikeja on Wednesday on suspicion of being infected with Coronavirus has tested negative. Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, made this known through a press statement on Thursday, noting that “the likelihood of COVID-19 infection in this particular patient was
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The Medical Doctors and Dental Consultant Association of Nigeria has declared an indefinite strike action over the National Universities Commission’s requirement that clinical lecturers must acquire a Ph.D. as a condition for career progression in the Nigerian university system. The consultant doctors said their strike is to press home their demand that the circular should
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Iran on Saturday reported one more death among 10 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths in the Islamic republic to five and infections to 28. “We have 10 new confirmed cases of COVID-19,” health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said on state television. “One of the new cases has unfortunately passed away,”
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American passengers began evacuating a cruise ship quarantined off Japan early on Monday morning, boarding around a dozen buses at a port in Yokohama. An AFP reporter saw buses in a convoy starting to move away from the Diamond Princess, though they did not immediately depart the port. An American passenger, Sarah Arana, confirmed to
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The Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for tightened control over online discussion and increased policing to ensure “positive energy” and social stability, state media said Saturday, as the country struggles to contain the deadly new coronavirus. Xi’s remarks were made public as the authorities have faced rare bouts of public anger over the handling
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As death toll from the deadly C0VID19 rises, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said on Saturday that five travelers from China tested negative to the Coronavirus also known as COVID19. Recall that the NCDC Director-General, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, said on Friday that the centre had “two cases and tests are going on at the
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