The Akwa Ibom Commissioner for Works, Mr. Ephraim Inyangeyen, has said that no Commissioner in the state tested positive of the novel coronavirus as insinuated in the social media. In a statement in Uyo on Monday, Inyangeyen said that all the Commissioners in the State executive council are in good health conditions. He challenged the originators of such rumour to name the commissioners suspected or confirmed to have been down with COVID-19 and the location...
More than 200 Cuban health workers had arrived in South Africa to help in the country’s fight against the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The Office of South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, said on Monday. It said that a total of 217 medics, comprising doctors, scientists and other health experts, were to be dispatched across all provinces of South Africa. The African country hit hardest by the new coronavirus, after Ramaphosa asked his Cuban counterpart Miguel Diaz-Canel...
The Kaduna State Government says wearing face masks will be enforced as a critical public health measure, to reduce the transmission of Coronavirus (COVID-19). This is contained in a statement signed by Muyiwa Adekeye, the Senior Assistant to the Governor on Media and Communications, in Kaduna. According to the statement, all persons who venture out of their homes for whatever reason must wear face masks and observe social distancing everywhere they go, in markets and...
Dr. Osagie Ehanire, the Minister of Health, on Sunday said President Mohammadu Buhari would determine when to lift the lockdown occasioned by the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the country. Ehanire said this on SundayPolitical on Channels Television in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that on April 13, Buhari announced a 14-day extension of lockdown in Lagos, Abuja and Ogun states to combat the pandemic. The initial 14-day lockdown in the three states...
Egypt confirmed on Sunday 215 new cases and 10 deaths of COVID-19, raising the total number of cases registered in the country to 4,534, including 317 deaths, said the Egyptian Health Ministry. Meanwhile, 62 COVID-19 patients were completely cured, increasing the tally of recoveries to 1,176, the ministry’s spokesman Khaled Megahed said in a statement. Megahed stressed Egypt’s close cooperation and coordination with the World Health Organisation regarding COVID-19 case detection and necessary medical care....
The U.S. state of New York will restart its economy after the peak of the coronavirus outbreak in a multi-phase manner, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Sunday. The strategy is to first reopen the construction and manufacturing sectors, and the second phase will be evaluating businesses on a case-by-case basis, depending on how essential they are, said Cuomo at his daily briefing. There will be two weeks in between each phase to monitor the effects...
Liverpool Football Club’s expansion of their Anfield Road stand has been postponed by a year due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the English Premier League (EPL) club said on Monday. The club added that the earliest target for completion is now 2023. Liverpool opened their redeveloped Main Stand in 2016, which raised seating capacity to more than 54,000, and the club were set to begin work on the Anfield Road stand in December....
The number of people who have died from coronavirus infection in France rose by 437 to 23,293 on Monday, the Health Ministry said in a statement. The 1.9 percent increase is the highest in four days but well below the more than four percent rate seen 10 days ago. The number of people in hospital with COVID-19 infection fell further to 28,055 from 28,217 on Sunday and the number of people in intensive care fell...
Speculation is still brewing over the mysterious cases of death of many prominent Kano state citizens and residents floating around the media landscape. Last week, the West African Pilot News (WAP) received reports which described grave happenings in Kano, one of Nigeria’s largest commercial and important historic cities. The names on the casualty list read like a roll call of the top echelon of the northern political elite. Enough to call attention to not only...
April 27, 2020 (NAN) Anambra Government has announced plan to reopen the 63 major markets in the state on May 4 after closure since late March. Gov Willie Obiano made this known to newsmen at Aguleri, Anambra East Local Government Area on Monday, after his brief meeting with the 63 market leaders in the state. He said each market should set up a task force that would be trained by the state government on COVID-19 safety compliance...
