PREMIUM TIMES The Akwa Ibom state government is building a new isolation centre to add to the existing two isolation centres in the state because of the novel coronavirus. There are nine confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Akwa Ibom…
PUNCH President Donald Trump said Monday that he would temporarily suspend immigration to the United States because of the coronavirus pandemic, despite the US already being the worst-hit country in the world. Trump referred to the “Invisible Enemy,” a phrase…
TODAY.NG The Shell companies in Nigeria have presented eight vehicles to the governments of Lagos and Rivers States to support the efforts at contact tracing and treatment of novel coronavirus disease cases. The companies, comprising: The Shell Petroleum Development Company…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa WE have gone just a quarter into 2020. Yet we have lost at least 43,000 souls to a tiny virus that has become an unseen and unwelcome guest which forces itself on us. Some 900,000 humans…
PUNCH The Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, on Saturday confirmed the death of a COVID-19 patient in the hospital. The PUNCH in an exclusive on Friday had reported the death of a 55-year-old man who died of COVID-19 complications at LUTH.…
PREMIUM TIMES Health workers at the university of Uyo Teaching Hospital (UUTH) in Akwa Ibom State are said to be running away from their duty posts because of the novel coronavirus. The UUTH is a leading tertiary health facility in…
THE GUARDIAN AS confusion pervades the imposition of curfew in parts of Rivers, the state government has threatened not to re-open sanctioned banks. A dusk to dawn curfew, which was to commence yesterday, had been imposed on a section of…
PREMIUM TIMES Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State on Tuesday relaxed the interstate boundary closure ordered to check the spread of coronavirus to allow foodstuffs, drugs and vehicles conveying personnel on essential duty into the state. Mr Diri granted unfettered…
VANGUARD The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Wednesday afternoon announced that 12 new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the country. “Twelve new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Nigeria; 9 in Osun, 2 in Edo and…
VANGUARD Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta on Wednesday disclosed that three suspected cases of the COVID-19 in the state had tested negative. Okowa made this known via his verified Facebook page. The governor had in a broadcast to the state…