Taiwan is protesting its exclusion from the World Health Organisation’s annual two-day meeting which opened on Monday. Taiwan and dozens of friendly countries have urged the WHO to invite the island nation to the online meeting to discuss its containment of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), which is seen as a success story. “It’s a loss for the WHO that the Taiwan model won’t be able to be shared at such an important meeting,’’ Health and...
The Lagos State Government says it is considering full re-opening of the critical sectors of its economy after assessing the readiness of businesses to re-open. Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu said this on Sunday after the State’s Security Council meeting, held at the State House, Marina. Sanwo-Olu, however, said that the move to fully re-open the economy would not be pushed in a hurry. He said that in the coming days, the state government would be rolling...
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) says it is yet to release a post COVID-19 travel guidelines for air travellers. Mrs. Henrietta Yakubu, the General Manager, Corporate Affairs, FAAN, said this known in a statement issued in Lagos on Saturday. She said: “Our attention has been drawn to a statement released by a certain Tayo Olu to the effect that the federal government, through FAAN has released a post-COVID-19 travel guideline for air travellers....
The North-East Commodity Association (NECAS), in Taraba State, has distributed 30 new tractors for this year’s agriculture to the Association’s 16 LG Chairmen. Chief of Policy Mechanisation, Engr. Sulaiman D. Sulaiman, who disclosed this during distribution exercise in Jalingo, said the tractors would be used for commercial purposes at a subsidizing rate for farmers to ease the misery they face in the state. He said that more than two thousand people, including women and youth,...
The Coordinator in charge of all the isolation and treatment centres in Oyo state, Professor Temitope Alonge has revealed how patients who tested positive to the coronavirus are been treated at the various isolation centres in the state. He revealed this while discharging eleven patients from the State Infectious Disease Centre, Olodo, Ibadan on Friday Alonge, a former Chief Medical Director, University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan stated that the medical and healthcare workers only seek...
The Federal Government had said that the outpatients, antenatal visits to hospitals had dropped by 50%. The drop also reflected in the immunization services. This was disclosed by the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire at a press briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Thursday. According to the minister, this is shown in the latest statistic obtained by the FG, the statistics showed that pregnant women and other outpatients visit to hospitals...
Prof. Maurice Iwu, Chairman, Imo COVID-19 Task Force, says that Coronavirus is not a death sentence as long as people take precautionary measures instructed by public health authorities. Iwu made the assertion when members of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) COVID-19 Team, led by Dr. Victor Dike, paid him a courtesy visit in his office on Wednesday in Owerri. He noted that 90 per cent of virus diseases that affected people were not medical but...
Passenger flights in and out of Lithuania have resumed after a break of more than a month and a half during the coronavirus pandemic. German airline Lufthansa had a flight from Frankfurt to the Lithuanian capital Vilnius on Wednesday afternoon with more than 150 passengers. A similar number of passengers flew the other way from Vilnius to Frankfurt later in the evening, local media reported. The passengers had to undergo a medical check after landing...
The Lagos state government has announced the discharge of a 98-year old woman who was a COVID-19 patient from its isolation center. The Oldest COVID-19 patient in the state isolation centers. According to the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu who disclosed the information on its Twitter yesterday, the 98-year woman was part of the 25 patients that were discharged from the state isolation centers yesterday. The governor also said that the patients were managed...
Adamawa State Government has commenced repatriation of Almajiris back to their states of origin with the first tranche of 132 part of indigenes of Gombe State which is one-third of their population from two local governments of Adamawa. The decision-taking by the government is the sequel to the resolutions reached by the Northern State Governors’ Forum to end the menace of Almajiri syndrome and the need to contain the spread of COVID-19 pandemic in the...
