NCDC Records 245 New Cases of COVID19, as Total Infections Now 2802

CoronavirusNewsNigeriaNCDC Records 245 New Cases of COVID19, as Total Infections Now 2802

PilotnewsMay 4, 2020

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Monday recorded 245 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in Nigeria to 2802. The NCDC also said that six new patients have been confirmed dead to the virus in the country, bringing the total number of death to 93. The agency on its confirmed twitter handle on Monday night said that the 245 new cases were recorded from 16 states. “76-Lagos, 37-Katsina, 32-Jigawa,...

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Police Impound Over 100 Vehicles for Lockdown Violations in Zamfara

CoronavirusLaw & JusticeNewsNigeriaPolice Impound Over 100 Vehicles for Lockdown Violations in Zamfara

PilotnewsMay 4, 2020

The Police Command in Zamfara says it has impounded 101 vehicles and their drivers, prosecuted for violating the restriction of movement order by the state government. The Commissioner of Police, Mr Usman Nagogo, announced this to newsmen in Gusau on Monday. Nagogo said that the offenders were prosecuted at mobile courts recently set up by the state government. “The vehicle owners were fined. “We also directed medical personnel at the points of arrest to fumigate...

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COVID-19: Poultry Farmers Decry Egg Glut

BusinessCoronavirusNewsNigeriaCOVID-19: Poultry Farmers Decry Egg Glut

PilotnewsMay 4, 2020

Poultry farmers in Plateau have decried the rate of egg glut in the state and country at large because of the outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Mr Sunday Rogo, the state Vice Chairman of the Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN), said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Jos. He told NAN that poultry farmers were floating the market with eggs without available buyers, hence making the farmers...

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Unilorin Set to Make COVID-19 Vaccine Research Breakthrough

CoronavirusEducationNewsNigeriaUnilorin Set to Make COVID-19 Vaccine Research Breakthrough

PilotnewsMay 4, 2020

The University of Ilorin (Unilorin) says it will soon produce a vaccine for Coronavirus (COVID-19). The institution said this in a Bulletin issued on Monday that a team of medical experts and scientists led by a Professor of Medical Virology, Prof. Mathew Kolawole, is working on the project. It stated the research team had developed three viable proposals for research on various aspects of the contagious disease. Kolawole, who is the Director of the University’s...

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Covid-19: Jigawa Records Second Death Cases

CoronavirusNigeriaCovid-19: Jigawa Records Second Death Cases

Beloved John (Staff Writer)May 4, 2020

Jigawa state on it recorded casualty to COVID-19.  The case is a pregnant woman in the Zareku ward, Miga local government. The pregnant woman is among the five confirmed COVID-19 cases in the state early last week. She died at the isolation center in Duste, the state capital. A member of the state task force who confirmed this to newsmen said the woman bled to death as a result of miscarriage she had at the...

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COVID 19: NEDC Donates 3 Ambulances, Food stuff to Adamawa Govt

CoronavirusNewsNigeriaCOVID 19: NEDC Donates 3 Ambulances, Food stuff to Adamawa Govt

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)May 4, 2020

The North East Development Commission NEDC has donated three ambulances and foodstuffs to the Adamawa government. Presenting the materials to the State  Government representative of the Managing Director of the Commission, Mr. Mike Tarfa said the items are meant to assist the government to mitigate some of the challenges presented by the Covid-19 pandemic in the state.  Mr. Tarfa said the ambulances will go a long way to facilitate the conveyance of patients, adding that...

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UPDATE: Presidential Task Force Committee Says Covid-19 is Responsible for Mass Death in Kano

CoronavirusNewsNigeriaUPDATE: Presidential Task Force Committee Says Covid-19 is Responsible for Mass Death in Kano

Beloved John (Staff Writer)May 4, 2020

The leader of the Presidential Task Force Committee on coronavirus, Nasiru Sani Gwarzo has disclosed that the novel Coronavirus is responsible for the mass deaths in Kano. He has cautioned residents of the state against actions that might expose them to the virus. Gwarzo disclosed this while addressing the pressmen in the state on Sunday after the ceremony of donation of mobile testing laboratory facilities by Alhaji Aliko Dangote to the Kano State Government. “Let...

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UK says China Has Questions to Answer Over Coronavirus Outbreak

CoronavirusWorld NewsUK says China Has Questions to Answer Over Coronavirus Outbreak

PilotnewsMay 4, 2020

Britain said on Monday that China had questions to answer over the information it shared about the novel coronavirus outbreak, but refused to comment on reports that a U.S.-led intelligence consortium had accused Beijing of a cover-up. The U.S. has scaled up its rhetoric over Chinese culpability for the coronavirus in recent days, with U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, saying on Sunday there was evidence the disease emerged from a Chinese lab. Washington has...

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French Govt. Under Fire for May 11 Lockdown Exit Plan

CoronavirusWorld NewsFrench Govt. Under Fire for May 11 Lockdown Exit Plan

PilotnewsMay 4, 2020

The French government on Monday faced mounting questions and criticism about its plan to gradually ease the country’s coronavirus lockdown starting on May 11. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and more than 300 other mayors in the Ile de France region around the capital demanded that the government postpone the planned return for some schoolchildren on that day. French schools have been closed since mid-March. Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer says some 4 percent of children have...

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UPDATE: A Pregnant Woman Died of COVID-19 in FMC Abeokuta, Unit Shuts

CoronavirusNigeriaPeopleUPDATE: A Pregnant Woman Died of COVID-19 in FMC Abeokuta, Unit Shuts

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)May 4, 2020

The Federal Medical Centre, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta on Sunday confirmed the death of a pregnant woman as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.  The management said it has shut down the Accident and Emergency Complex of the center where the death occurred.  According to Segun Orisajo, the Head of the Public Relations Unit of the center, the pregnant woman died on Friday.  The death of the woman had created fears among the workers in the hospital...

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