World
Mar 26,
2020
The U.S. coronavirus death toll surpassed 1,000 on Wednesday. Statistics showed that 247 people died in 24 hours and 13,355 new cases recorded. Recovery rate remains poor: 384 out…
Mar 25,
2020
Spain, like Italy, has surpassed China to record the world’s second-highest death toll from coronavirus. Spanish officials reported 738 new deaths today, the country’s biggest daily jump so far, taking…
Mar 25,
2020
German customs officials are attempting to track down about 6 million face masks ordered to protect health workers from the coronavirus which went missing at an airport in Kenya. “The…
Mar 24,
2020
Senegal and South Africa issued curfews Monday as part of measures against the novel coronavirus, which has claimed more than 16,000 lives worldwide. Following a nine-hour-long meeting, Senegalese President Macky…
Mar 24,
2020
Mainland China saw a doubling in new coronavirus cases, including one in the central city of Wuhan. The jump in cases was driven by a jump in infected travellers arriving…
Martin La Monica, The Conversation
Mar 24,
2020
Even as China, South Korea and Singapore make progress controlling the new coronavirus, its spread raises alarm in many more parts of the globe as the pathogen’s toll on human…
Mar 22,
2020
Massive medical supplies donated by China’s Jack Ma Foundation to 54 African countries to battle coronavirus, arrived on Sunday morning in Addis Ababa, through an Ethiopian Airlines cargo flight. They…
Mar 21,
2020
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has announced that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in South Africa has increased to 240 as of Saturday (21 March). The…
Mar 20,
2020
Gboyega Akosile, chief press secretary to Lagos state governor, has revealed that some hospitals in Lagos state have been receiving patients suffering from chloroquine poisoning. Gboyega Akosile made the…
Mar 19,
2020
The Federal Government of Nigeria is restricting entry into the country for travellers from the following countries; China, Italy, Iran, South Korea, Spain, Japan, France, Germany, Norway, the United States…
Mar 18,
2020
An Indian contractor staff with Dangote Industries Limited has been quarantined for Coronavirus at the Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria. Management of the Dangote Industries…
Mar 17,
2020
Gas flaring activities among oil and gas firms cost Nigeria N521.9 billion (around $1.7 billion) in 2019, the latest statistics by the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA)…
Mar 13,
2020
The current COVID-19 outbreak is driven by a novel coronavirus (SARS CoV-2) that is spreading between people. The first human infections were reported at the end of December 2019 in…
Mar 12,
2020
Thai media reported on Thursday that thousands of monkeys from three separate tribes commenced on an all-out war in the middle of a Thai city. Footage of the monkey hordes…
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