COVID-19: NCDC Reveals Three States Without Virus Infected Patients 2
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COVID-19: NCDC Reveals Three States Without Virus Infected Patients

Three states in Nigeria with no record of COVID-19 patients currently on admission for the virus have been revealed on the website of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). As of Tuesday September 1, three states including; Kogi, Zamfara and Yobe States have no COVID-19 patient infected with the deadly disease on admission in

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COVID-19: NCDC to establish test centre in Nasarawa 3
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COVID-19: NCDC to establish test centre in Nasarawa

The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has disclosed plan to establish a molecular laboratory in Nasarawa State to enable medical experts carry out test for the dreaded COVID-19. Director General of the centre, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, disclosed this while on a courtesy call to Nasarawa State Governor, Engineer Abdullahi Sule, at the Government House,

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COVID-19: Distance yourselves from the elderly to forestall rise - NCDC urges youths 4
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COVID-19: Distance yourselves from the elderly to forestall rise – NCDC urges youths

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has blamed the rapid spread of COVID-19 in the country to the rising cases of infected young people within age 20 and 40 bracket. It advised the youth to take responsibility by ensuring they kept distance from the elderly who remained the most vulnerable. Director-General of the NCDC,

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COVID 19: Sack Health Ministers, Disband PTF - HURIWA tells Buhari 5
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COVID 19: Sack Health Ministers, Disband PTF – HURIWA tells Buhari

Following the continuous spike and upward swing in the numbers of people afflicted with the COVID 19 ailment in Nigeria despite the existence of both the Federal Ministry of Health with two full cabinet level appointees; the Presidential task Force on Covid 19 (PTF) headed by the chief scribe of the central government and the

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BREAKING: 387 new cases of coronavirus recorded as toll nears 10,000 8
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BREAKING: 387 new cases of coronavirus recorded as toll nears 10,000

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says the country has recorded another 387 new cases of the coronavirus on Friday. The new cases recorded for Friday bring the total number of confirmed cases in Nigeria to 9302. According to NCDC “387 new cases of #COVID19; Lagos-254FCT-29Jigawa-24Edo-22Oyo-15Rivers-14Kaduna-11Borno-6Kano-3Plateau-2Yobe-2Gombe-2Bauchi-2Ondo-1 9302 cases of #COVID19NigeriaDischarged: 2697Deaths: 261.”

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NCDC to certify 3 COVID 19 testing centres in Anambra 10
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NCDC to certify 3 COVID 19 testing centres in Anambra

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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