Category: Update on coronavirus

Lagos state Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi has said that the State on Thursday recorded two more COVID-19-related deaths and discharged another five other patients who have tested negative twice. This was disclosed via his Twitter handle, @ProfAkinAbayomi. A 51-year-old doctor, Chigbo Emeka, recently died at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, after he had contact with an infected person in his private hospital. “Unfortunately, Lagos recorded three additional deaths from COVID-19-related complications. The deceased are males aged 51, 52 and 62.  One of the dead, a medical doctor,…

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Geoffrey Onyeama, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, has said the planned evacuation of Nigerians from foreign countries will be staggered as the number of interested persons is high. The government had concluded plans to bring back Nigerians from the United States, United Kingdom, China, United Arab Emirates and other countries on account of the coronavirus pandemic. Over 2,000 Nigerian nationals had registered with various Nigerian embassies abroad to return home. Speaking during the Presidential TaskForce on COVID-19 briefing in Abuja on Thursday, the minister explained that the isolation centres were…

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Dapo Abiodun, Governor of Ogun state, on Tuesday said the current relaxation of the lockdown in the state between 7am to 2pm would be suspended on Friday. The governor also said the state would soon commence strict enforcement of wearing of face masks in the public, saying it would help flatten the spread of coronavirus. The governor in the statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Kunle Somorin, urged the residents of the state to consider the extension announced by the President on Monday a necessary sacrifice to defeat an invisible…

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Prof. Akin Abayomi, the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, has said a total of 119 people with COVID-19 symptoms have been identified in the state. Abayomi, on Tuesday, said a total of 118,000 households had been reached in the search of possible COVID-19 cases in communities. He said community search was activated to limit the spread of the disease in the state which had the highest number of COVID-19 patients in the country. “We’ve embarked on an active case search in communities. The idea is to go to hot spots…

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10 Nigerians, out of the 40 persons subjected to the mandatory COVID-19 test for those who registered in the United Kingdom to return home, have tested positive. The results of the tests, which were released on Monday in London, indicated that the 10 individuals were asymptomatic, raising fears that they might have infected other people. This was said to have sparked panic among the staff of the Nigerian High Commission in London and other Nigerians who heard about the development. 2,000 Nigerians, mostly in the United States, the United Kingdom,…

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President Muhammadu Buhari in his address to the nation on Monday, has said conditional cash transfer and food distribution to vulnerable people would continue even as he announced the extension of lockdown in Abuja as well as Lagos and Ogun States. The President extended a two-week lockdown in the three cities which ends on Monday by another 14 days. He explained that the extension was part of further measures to curb the spread of coronavirus in the country. According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, there are over 300…

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Dr. Mohammed Alkali, former Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH), Bauchi and president, Islamic Medical Association of Nigeria (IMAN), has punctured the widely held belief that hot temperature prevents the spread of the novel coronavirus. Delivering a lecture on the disease at a meeting organised by the Bauchi State Muslims Coalition on Covid-19 for imams and other stakeholders in Bauchi, the don stated that it was erroneous for people to assume that places with high temperatures could not be affected by the virus…

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The Nigerian Medical Association, the National Association of Resident Doctors and the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives have again called on the government, in the light of the increasing spread and casualties arising from the coronavirus disease, to immediately put in place life insurance policy for their members across the country. This, they said, would further motivate their members on the front line of tackling the raging disease, given the hazards they are exposed to on duty. In Nigeria, as of Saturday, a doctor had died as a…

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With 17 newly confirmed cases, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control Friday night said confirmed cases of the virus in the country now stands at 305. “17 new cases of #COVID-19 have been reported as follows: eight in Lagos, three in Katsina, two in FCT, one in Niger, one in Kaduna, one in Anambra and one in Ondo,” NCDC said on Twitter on Friday. “As of 09:30 pm on the 10th of April, there are 305 confirmed cases, 58 discharged, seven deaths.” Currently, Lagos has 163 cases, FCT- 56, Osun…

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