Corona
Lagos discharges 56 COVID-19 patients
Olushola Odeyinde Fifty-six patients undergoing treatment for coronavirus have been discharged in Lagos State. The State’s Ministry of Health made this known in a series of tweets on Sunday. It ...
12th July 2020
Oyo discharges two COVID-19 patients, records 43 new cases
Olushola Odeyinde The Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, on Thursday has confirmed that two more COVID-19 patients have been discharged in the State. This was revealed via his official twitter handle. ...
9th July 2020
Strike: COVID-19 patients leave Ondo hospital
Peter Dada, Akure Sequel to the industrial action embarked upon by the medical doctors, particularly those at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Ondo State, some of the patients at the IDH who are bei...
8th July 2020
Enugu records 37 new COVID-19 cases, 11 deaths
Raphael Ede, Enugu As the number of the novel coronavirus cases in Enugu state increased to 418, the state has announced that 11 persons have died from the virus as of Wednesday morning. The State Com...
8th July 2020
Brazilian President Bolsonaro tests positive for COVID-19
Olushola Odeyinde with Agency Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro announced on Tuesday he had tested positive for the coronavirus but said he was feeling “perfectly well” and had only ...
7th July 2020
COVID-19: Medical Guild kicks as Lagos disengages health workers
Dayo Ojerinde The Medical Guild has disagreed with the Lagos State Government for disengaging over 30 frontline health workers in the State. The PUNCH learnt that no fewer than 30 volunteer workers at...
7th July 2020
Ondo striking doctors stop treating COVID-19 patients
Peter Dada, Akure The doctors in Ondo State, under the auspices of the National Association of Government General Medical and Dental Practitioners, have ordered their colleagues at the Infectious Dise...
6th July 2020
Bolivian health minister tests positive for COVID-19
Bolivian Health Minister Eidy Roca has tested positive for COVID-19, becoming the third member of the cabinet to be infected in four days, interim President Jeanine Anez said on Sunday. Anez expressed...
6th July 2020
Osun records 14 new COVID-19 cases, two deaths
Bola Bamigbola, Osogbo. Osun State Government has confirmed 14 new cases of coronavirus and recorded two death from the pandemic. The State’s Commissioner for Health, Dr. Rafiu Isamotu, in a sta...
5th July 2020
Abuja discharges 20 COVID-19 patients
Olushola Odeyinde The Federal Capital Territory has recorded 20 coronavirus recoveries, The PUNCH reports. FCT Minister, Mohammed Bello, made this known on Saturday, noting that the total number of di...
4th July 2020COVID-19: Ghanaian minister resigns over isolation breach
A Ghanaian junior minister resigned on Friday for failing to self-isolate after testing positive for coronavirus, the presidency said. Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah&#...
3rd July 2020
COVID-19: 172 Nigerians return home from Uganda, Kenya
Olushola Odeyinde with Agency The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission says 172 Nigerians evacuated from Uganda and Kenya arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja at 10:20 am on Wednesda...
1st July 2020
Kwara records 13 new cases of COVID-19
Kwara State has recorded 13 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of infections in the state to 235. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the state also recorded five deaths while 131 patie...
30th June 2020
COVID-19: Osun records one death, six new cases
Bola Bamigbola, Osogbo. Osun State records six new cases of coronavirus, as well as one death from the pandemic. The deceased was said to be having an underlying ailment and had been buried by his fam...
21st June 2020
COVID-19: Dubai opens up to tourists from July 7
Dubai announced on Sunday it would allow tourists back in the Gulf city-state from July 7 after a closure of more than three months to contain the coronavirus. “Dubai to welcome tourists from Ju...
21st June 2020
Lagos discharges 45 COVID-19 patients
Olushola Odeyinde The Lagos State government has discharged 45 COVID-19 patients after they tested negative to the virus. This was made known via the Lagos State Ministry of Health official Twitter ha...
21st June 2020
Oyo discharges 96 COVID-19 patients
Sodiq Oyeleke Ninety-six coronavirus patients undergoing treatment in Oyo State have been discharged after testing negative twice for the virus. The Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, made this known i...
13th June 2020
LASUTH loses 54-year-old nurse to COVID-19
Dayo Ojerinde The Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja has lost a nurse, Mrs Adenike Bakare, to COVID-19, The PUNCH has learnt. Bakare, who was an Assistant Director, Nursing Services, acc...
13th June 2020
COVID-19: Rivers NMA laments lack of PPEs as 22 doctors test positive
Friday Amobi, Port Harcourt The Nigerian Medical Association in Rivers State has lamented the lack of Personal Protective Equipment for their members in frontline duty in the fight against COVID-19 in...
13th June 2020
Lagos discharges 90 COVID-19 patients
Sodiq Oyeleke Ninety coronavirus patients undergoing treatment at isolation centres in Lagos State have been discharged. The Lagos State Government Ministry of Health made this known on Friday. The mi...
12th June 2020
COVID-19: UK flights barred as Greece reopens for tourists
As Greece prepares to reopen for foreign visitors in a bid to get its crucial tourism sector back on its feet, the government said Friday that flights from coronavirus hotspots such as Britain would n...
12th June 2020
COVID-19: Ukraine's first lady tests positive
Olushola Odeyinde with Agency Olena Zelenska, the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said on Friday she had tested positive for coronavirus, but her husband and their two children had tes...
12th June 2020
Health worker dies of COVID-19 in Gombe
Chima Azubuike, Gombe The Chairman of the Gombe State Task Force, Idris Mohammed, has confirmed the death of Abubakar Mohammed, a Senior Registrar in Paediatrics with the Federal Teaching Hospital Gom...
12th June 2020
Lagos, Ogun, Oyo record 429 new COVID-19 cases
Sodiq Oyeleke Lagos, Ogun and Oyo states recorded 429 cases of coronavirus on Thursday, The PUNCH reports. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control made this known while announcing new cases of coronavi...
12th June 2020
COVID-19 yet to reach its peak, Buhari tells ECOWAS
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Thursday, charged the ECOWAS Commission to come up with an economic recovery plan to help member-states to recover fro...
12th June 2020
COVID-19: US companies sack 44.2m workers
Total US layoffs caused by the coronavirus pandemic reached 44.2 million even as businesses try to reopen, and analysts warn of continuing damage to the world’s largest economy as COVID-19 shows...
12th June 2020
170 police officers die of COVID-19 in Peru - Minister
At least 170 police officers in Peru have died after contracting the coronavirus while enforcing the South American nation’s pandemic lockdown, the interior minister said Thursday. Almost 10,000...
11th June 2020
COVID-19: Six latest global developments
Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis. – US cases top two million – The number of confirmed coronavirus infections in the United States, the world’s worst-hit ...
11th June 2020
Akwa Ibom discharges 27 COVID-19 patients
Patrick Odey, Uyo The Akwa Ibom State Government has discharged 27 more patients from the Ibom Specialty Isolation Centre, The PUNCH reports. The Commissioner for Health, Dominic Ukpong, while briefin...
11th June 2020
COVID-19: 81 dead in Lagos as discharged patients near 1,000
Kayode Oyero The number of coronavirus recoveries in Lagos State neared 1000 on Wednesday, The PUNCH reports. This was just as 81 coronavirus associated deaths were reported in the state by the Niger...
11th June 2020
Russian COVID-19 cases exceed 500,000
Russia recorded 8,779 COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking its total to 502,436, the country’s coronavirus response centre said in a statement on Thursday. According to the statement, the dea...
11th June 2020