A new, unpublished study found that hydroxychloroquine, a drug President Trump has cited as key in fighting coronavirus, has a higher death rate among coronavirus patients compared to those not on the drug. Source: CNN
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EBONYI State Commissioner of Justice and Attorney General, Cletus Ofoke, on Friday, stated that Governor David Umahi has unconditionally granted pardon to 33 convicted prison inmates serving various jail terms in Abakaliki and Afikpo Correctional Center. Ofoke, who stated Read more…
EXECUTIVE Secretary, Anambra State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (ASPHCDA), Chioma Ezenyimulu has urged health workers to have high index suspicion during this COVID-19 pandemic. Dr Ezenyimulu said this during a visit by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Read more…
CNN presenter, Richard Quest, declared that he tested positive for the coronavirus during his usual show ‘Quest means business’. He waited at the tail end of the program to inform the audience of the positive test. He, however, insisted that Read more…
Kano state has witnessed an escalation in infections with the covid-19 virus, Lagos state recorded no new infection. Out of the new 38 cases recorded in Nigeria that brought the total confirmed cases to 665, Kano alone recorded 23 new Read more…
Obienu Okwuchukwu Anambra State Government says the clash between the Police and some youths at Nkpor, Idemili North Local Government Area that claimed the life of a young man is `unfortunate and regrettable’. Gov Willie Obiano, while condoling with the Read more…
A 68-year-old woman has been delivered of twins at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi Araba. The woman was pregnant for the first time following an in vitro fertilisation. She was delivered of the babies – a boy and a Read more…
Using his Twitter handle, the Nigerian musical superstar, Davido announced the recovery of his fiancé, Chioma from the dreaded covid-19 disease. Davido, a Nigerian super star musician announced through his Twitter handle the recovery of Chioma from the coronavirus, having Read more…
A 15-member medical team from China recently arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The team comprised experts in infectious diseases, respiratory illness, intensive care, cardiology, neurology, general surgery and anaesthesiology. Aboard the chartered Air Peace flight were also medical Read more…
Anambra State governor, Chief Willie Obiano, has announced that the COVID-19 Index Case in the state, which has remained the only, has tested negative to the ailment. The state registered its index case of the virus last Friday, while about Read more…
Preliminary results from government lab experiments show that the coronavirus does not survive long in high temperatures and high humidity, and is quickly destroyed by sunlight, providing evidence from controlled tests of what scientists believed — but had not yet Read more…
Governors of the six South West states of Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun and Oyo have ordered the immediate closure of all entry points into the region. This is even as the Governors announced that wearing of nose masks would Read more…