Lokoja As the battles COVID-19 with no end insight, new data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has shown that 20 out of the 774 Local Government Areas in the country, representing more than 50 per cent of COVID-19 cases in Nigeria. The 20 LGAs are spread across eight states and the Federal…
PROTOCOLS I welcome you all to the National Briefing for Monday 1st June, 2020. 2. When the PTF briefed the nation on Monday 18th May, 2020, we informed you that Mr. President had approved amongst others, the extension of phase one of the eased lockdown so that the observed gaps in the expected impact of…
(Ozumulu) As all hands are deck to find vaccine to the pandemic Coronavirus ravaging the world, native doctors in Ozubulu, Ekwusigo local Government Area, Anambra state said they had drugs capable of curing the dreaded disease. The native doctors, who come under the aegis of Odinana Herbal Association, disclosed to journalists in Ozumulu, after a…
Kogi State Governent says the state is Coronavirus free despite the claim by Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) that the state finally recorded two cases of Coronavirus ravaging the world. Duaglobalnews recalls that NCDC, on Thursday in its twitter showing the latest statistics of the presence of the virus in the country disclosed that…
(Abuja) A ministerial team of experts would soon be dispatched to Kogi on a mission to engage authorities of the kogi state government, to determine material and technical needs of the state on COVID-19. Dr Osagie Ehanire,Minister of Health, made the disclosure in Abuja at a news conference by the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 on…
(Gusau) As the world battles the novel coronavirus with no end in sight, no fewer than eight medical doctors are said to have tested positive for the pandermic disease in Zamfara State. This sad news was disclosed by the Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association,(NMA), Zamfara branch, Dr. Mannir Bature in Gusau on Wednesday….
(Lokoja) Irrespective of certain reservations it has over the handling of the Coronavirus scourge in Nigeria, kogi state government says it remains committed to the concerted efforts aimed at fighting the pandermic coronavirus. The Commissioner for Health, Dr Saka Haruna Audu,stated this in a release he signed and made available to journalists in Lokoja on…
(Sokoto) The Sokoto State Government has earmarked N113m for the fumigation of the state, in its resolve to eliminate malaria and other agents of COVID-19. The Special Adviser to Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, in charge of the State Malaria Elimination Agency (SOSMES), Alhaji Abubakar Danlawan disclosed this in Sokoto while inaugurating the Central Facilitating Committee…
(China) A NEW drug is being tested by scientists at China’s Peking University, according to AFP. A Chinese laboratory has been developing a drug it believes has the power to bring the coronavirus pandemic to a halt. The outbreak first emerged in China late last year before spreading across the world, prompting an international race…
England’s deputy chief medical officer, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam on Monday May 18 announced the addition of loss of taste and smell to the official list of Coronavirus symptoms in the country. Van-Tam said victims of anosmia (the clinical name for a loss of smell) will also be eligible for Coronavirus testing even if they don’t…
