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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In Nigeria, the Federal Government (FG) has been urged to declare Lassa fever a public health incident of national emergency and concern. President of the Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS), Professor K. Mosto Onuoha, told journalists yesterday that in the last 50 years, Lassa fever has been occurring in perennial outbreaks in nearly all the
Read moreThe Kogi State Ministry of Health has confirmed nine cases of Lassa fever with four deaths recorded since the outbreak of the deadly disease in the state about a month ago. Dr Austin Ojotule, the State Epidemiologist, disclosed this in statement in Lokoja on Sunday. According to Ojotule, the state’s statistics on Lassa fever outbreak
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Six more people on a cruise ship off Japan are found to have the new coronavirus, the government said Sunday, bringing the number who have tested positive on board to 70. Test results are still coming in as passengers on the Diamond Princess face a two-week quarantine against the virus, which has killed hundreds of
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Scientists from the United States to Australia are using new technology in an ambitious, multi-million-dollar drive to develop a vaccine in record time to tackle China’s coronavirus outbreak. The new virus has spread rapidly since emerging late last year in China, killing more than 800 people in the mainland and infecting over 37,000. Cases have
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The death of a whistleblowing doctor who was reprimanded for warning about the new coronavirus has sparked rare calls for political reform and free speech in China. Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist in Wuhan — ground zero of China’s virus epidemic which has killed more than 800 — succumbed to the disease Friday over a month
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Senator Chukwuka Utazi has lamented that Nigeria lacks “adequate response mechanism” to handle disease outbreaks. Utazi who is the Chairman, Senate Committee on Primary Healthcare and Communicable Diseases, spoke during an oversight visit of the Senate Committee on Health to the Port Health Services at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport and the Apapa Seaport in
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The United States on Friday offered up to $100 million to China and other impacted countries to combat the fast-spreading coronavirus. “This commitment — along with the hundreds of millions generously donated by the American private sector — demonstrates strong US leadership in response to the outbreak,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a
Read moreThe Nigeria’s Government said that it will spend N620m special intervention fund to monitor, detect and contain the deadly Coronavirus. The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, stated this when he appeared before the Senate Committee on health. He briefed the Senate panel on the level of his ministry’s preparedness to manage the Coronavirus outbreak in the
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged on Wednesday to commit up to $100 million for the global response to the novel coronavirus epidemic that has claimed nearly 500 lives. The funding will be used to strengthen detection, isolation and treatment efforts, the foundation said, including protecting at-risk populations and developing vaccines and diagnostics. “Multilateral
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There was another protest in Lagos State today (Wednesday), this time around the Iyana Ipaja area of the State over the ban imposed on motorcycle (Okada) and tricycle (Keke) operators in the state. The protesters also light bonfires and disrupted business activities in the area. An eyewitness said, “There is a serious shooting and riot
Read moreThe Enugu State Government has confirmed the fourth case of Lassa fever in the state. Permanent Secretary, Enugu State Ministry of Health, Dr Ifeanyi Agujiobi, confirmed the incident in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Enugu on Tuesday. Agujiobi, however, said the patient was undergoing intensive medical care in an undisclosed
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The House of Representatives on Tuesday rejected a call for the evacuation of Nigerians from China as coronavirus spreads from the country to other parts of the world. The Chairman of the House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Mr Benjamin Kalu, had moved a motion praying that Nigerians stranded in China over the health
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The Coronavirus infection has risen to 17,205 from 14,380 confirmed cases while 361 persons had died from the disease, which originated from Wuhan in China. About 21,558 individuals were also suspected of being infected with the virus in the Chinese mainland. Giving an update on the epidemic in Abuja on Monday, the Chinese Ambassador to
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The World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday it was working around the clock with internet and social media giants to combat widespread misinformation surrounding the deadly novel coronavirus outbreak. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned of the dangers posed by “the spread of rumours and misinformation” as China saw a surge in deaths and infections
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