The United Nations on Thursday delivered a fresh batch of medical equipment and other vital supplies to the Nigerian government to further aid its fight against the Coronavirus pandemic. In a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday, UN’s Resident Coordinator in Nigeria, Edward Kallon, said that the supplies were funded by APM terminals. According to him, the supply is made up of 10,000 test kits, 15 oxygen concentrators, various personal protective equipment (PPE), vaccines, IEHK/PEP...

The Ebonyi Commissioner for Health, Dr. Daniel Umezurike, on Thursday, said that all the 74 suspected cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) from the state tested negative. Umezurike stated this while briefing newsmen on the state government’s response to the pandemic, stating that there was no reported case of the disease yet in the state. The commissioner, however, said that the state had tested over 50 samples from other states but did not report their results. “A...

A door-to-door collection of samples from citizens with acute respiratory symptoms will be done in Lagos and Abuja, the National Centre For Disease Control has disclosed. This is to help to overcome the bottlenecks in the testing capacity for coronavirus (COVID-19). The Director-General of the NCDC, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, revealed this at the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Monday. “We are really trying to change our strategy now and test more...