The Ebonyi State Governor and Chairman of Southeast Governors Forum Engr, David Umahi has been nominated as Covid-19 National Champion by the Presidential Taskforce on Covid-19. The nomination was announced in a letter to the governor by the National Coordinator of the Task Force, Dr Sani Aliyu. “I have the honour to formally notify His
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The French presidency has announced that President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for coronavirus. He will self-isolate for seven days and cancel all upcoming trips, including a planned visit to Lebanon.French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for COVID-19, the French Presidency said on Thursday. “The President of the Republic has been diagnosed positive for
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismisses the report that the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Tanko Muhammad, tested positive and went ahead to address it as an ordinary rumour. The CJN, who was absent at the inauguration of 72 new Senior Advocates of Nigeria held in Abuja on Tuesday, was reported to have contracted
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Sandra Lindsay saw the coronavirus at its most destructive. For months, she worked on the frontlines of the pandemic in one of the worst-affected boroughs, in the worst-affected city, in the worst-affected country in the world. Today, the critical care nurse became the first American to receive a vaccine as the US began its ambitious
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A Major-General, Olu Irefin, the Genera Officer Commanding (GOC) six division, Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, has died of complications from coronavirus (COVID-19). The General was attending the ongoing Chief of Army Staff’s Annual Conference 2020 in Abuja before he took ill and died, The Cable reports. Recall the Nigerian Army was forced to abruptly cancel the
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Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech has secured half a billion dollars in extra funding to produce its Covid-19 vaccine, it said Monday, as the country races to roll out a jab for general use. Beijing has largely brought the virus under control, with only 281 active cases still receiving treatment, according to official figures. But
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The Japanese Government has confirmed that all of its residents will get free coronavirus vaccines under a bill passed on Wednesday, December 2, as the nation battles record numbers of daily cases. The bill, which says the government will cover all vaccine costs for Japan’s 126 million residents, was approved by the upper house of
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Côte d’Ivoire winger Wilfried Zaha tested positive for COVID-19, his club Crystal Palace confirmed on Monday. Zaha was in line to play for Palace away to Burnley at Turf Moor in the Premier League later on Monday but missed the game as he is in self-isolation. “He has tested positive unfortunately for coronavirus so is
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The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) management has said that no corps member presently undergoing orientation course in all the camps of the scheme nationwide or Bauchi State, have tested positive to Corona virus. According to a press statement made available to reporters by the Director, Press and Public Relations, Mrs Adenike Adeyemi, she states
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President Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. has tested positive for COVID-19, two Trump family associates confirmed to CBS News. A spokesman for Trump Jr. said he tested positive at the start of the week and has been “quarantining out at his cabin since the result.” “He’s been completely asymptomatic so far and is following all
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No fewer than eight National Youth Service Corps members who are undergoing the three-week orientation exercise at the Wailo camp in the Ganjuwa Local Government Area of Bauchi State have tested positive for COVID-19. The Information Officer, Bauchi State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Ibrahim Sani, who disclosed this in a statement issued on Friday,
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A hundred pupils at a high school in northwestern Zimbabwe have tested positive for coronavirus, the government said Tuesday, raising fears of a new wave of the respiratory infection. “A total of 100 pupils have tested positive for Covid-19 at… John Tallach boarding secondary school in Matabeleland North,” government spokesman Nick Mangwana said on Twitter.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday at least 18.3 percent of COVID-19 deaths in Africa were among people with diabetes. Diabetes is one of the conditions that global studies have found to increase the risk of severe illness and death among patients infected with the virus. The WHO Africa Regional Office said on
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The Anambra state Head of Service, Bar Harry Udu has warned civil servants in the state against trivializing COVID-19 protocols, especially wearing of facemasks at public places. He said the state could not afford to experience another spike of the pandemic, as it was being experienced in the western world. Udu spoke during the 2020
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Anambra State Coordinator, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Mr Kehinde Aremu has charged prospective corps members in the state to accord the COVID-19 protocols and guidelines all the seriousness they deserved. He gave the charge at the permanent orientation camp, Umuawulu Mbaukwu in Awka South Local Government Area of the state while flagging off lecture
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