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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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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Two Iranians have died in hospital after testing positive for the new coronavirus in the city of Qom, according to the head of the city’s University of Medical Sciences. The official made this known to Mehr news agency on Wednesday. “Two Iranians, who tested positive earlier today (Wednesday) for new coronavirus, died of respiratory illness,”
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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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Millions of people in China returned to work Monday after an extended holiday aimed at slowing the spread of a coronavirus, with the extra travel deepening contagion concerns as the death toll climbed above 900. At least 40,000 have been infected by a new pathogen believed to have emerged late last year at a market
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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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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
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There are fears that Nigerian visitors to Chinese cities may contract the disease and spread it to others on arrival in the country if stringent measures are not taken at the airports and other border points. Official figures obtained on Friday indicated that about 120,000 Chinese nationals visit Nigeria annually mainly to explore business and
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Australia on Saturday confirmed its first case of the new coronavirus that has claimed 41 lives in China, becoming the latest country in a growing list to be affected by the illness. The sick man arrived in Melbourne from China a week ago from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak, the
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Coronavirus, has claimed 26 lives since emerging on December 31 in a market in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Here is a list of countries that have confirmed cases of the SARS-like virus (Coronavirus). China As of Friday, more than 800 people have been infected across China, with 177 in serious condition. Authorities were also
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has called on travelers from Nigeria to Wuhan, China, to avoid contact with sick people, animals (alive or dead), and animal markets. It added, “Travelers from Wuhan to Nigeria may be asked questions upon arrival by the Port Health Services unit at points of entry about symptoms of
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