Anambra state has recorded 17 fresh Covid-19 cases out of the 389 new cases of the virus confirmed on Saturday by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC. According to the report, with the new cases, Anambra now has a total of 29 confirmed cases of COVID-19 “Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, says 389
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The Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria (MLSCN) has issued guidelines for private sector medical laboratories seeking to provide testing through completely private arrangements for COVID-19. The MLSCN in information posted on its website stated that the document was developed in collaboration with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the Federal Ministry of
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Wajid Khan, one of the top composers of Bollywood dance songs, has died at the age of 42 after contracting coronavirus, media reports said Monday. Khan, who had been suffering from a kidney ailment, passed away in Mumbai on Sunday after suffering cardiac arrest, his brother told Press Trust of India news agency, adding that
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Nigeria has recorded it’s highest single-day spike in COVID 19 cases since the pandemic first hit the country with a total of 553 new cases for Saturday. Lagos State also recorded it’s highest single-day cases with 378 new cases for Saturday. According to the daily COVID 19 update by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control
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The Government of Kogi State has rejected the index cases of COVID 19 in the state announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, insisting that the state had yet to record any case of the pandemic. In a press statement on Wednesday, the commissioner for health in the state, Dr. Saka Haruna Audu, described
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman Prof Mahmood Yakubu said that Polling Units shall be redesigned by the Commission to ensure substantial compliance with the COVID-19 protocols established by health authorities. Among other things, the redesign would emphasise social distancing, general hygienic conduct and enforcement of COVID-19 prevention protocols. He said The commission disclosed
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No fewer than 69 persons including 50 trafficked Nigerian ladies stranded in Lebanon have been evacuated to Nigeria. The evacuees arrived Nigeria from Lebanon on Sunday, The DAILY VENDOR learnt. The Nigeria Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, who disclosed this on his Twitter handle, expressed profound gratitude to the Lebanese Government and the Lebanese
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No fewer than 200 Nigerians evacuated from the United Kingdom over two weeks ago have been confirmed COVID 19 negative. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), made this known after a short protest by the returnees over the non-issuance of the result, even five days after the test was done. The returnees had demanded
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, is set to certify three laboratories in the state as testing centers for the corona virus disease, THE DAILY VENDOR reports. This was contained in a release issued by the state Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment. Mr. C. Don Adinuba,“The laboratories include privatelying owned diagnostic centre at
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The Federal Ministry of Environment has commenced decontamination of the headquarters of the Anambra State Command of Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) against Covid-19 pandemic. The leader of the delegation, Sanitarian Uche Chris Benjamin from Federal Ministry of Environment Abuja disclosed this when she led her team to the NSCDC headquarters, Awka, THE
Read moreThe Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Kogi State Chapter has lamented that testing for COVID 19 had remained a huge challenge in the state. The Kogi NMA Chairman, Kabir Zubair, disclosed this on Thursday while reacting to the claim by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) that only one sample had been sent to the
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Anambra state Government has set up a COVID 19 Task Force in each of the twenty-one local government areas in the state for the second phase of community searching A statement released and signed by the Anambra State Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment C. Don Adinuba, said that each Task Force will be headed
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That the ravaging Covid-19 pandemic has continued to take toll on virtually every sector of nations of the world, including Nigeria is no longer debatable One sector the impact has largely been felt, particularly in Nigeria, remained the economy, with commercial activities in all the cities across the country gradually crumbling due to the scourge.
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Onitsha Ado COVID 19 response team has kicked off the distribution of stimulus package to over two thousand indigenes and non indigenes of the community as part of the relief measures to challenges caused by corona virus. The distribution which was done at Chuba Ikpeazu Memorial Stadium Onitsha in Onitsha North Council Area of Anambra
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The Chief Medical Director of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH), Nnewi, Anambra State, Professor Anthony Igwegbe has debunked a news report that the hospital last Sunday recorded one death of Coronavirus patient. He described the report as falsehood, saying that the hospital had never recorded any single positive case for Covid-19 since the
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