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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 38 new coronavirus cases in Nigeria with Kano state recording more new cases than Lagos – the epicentre in Nigeria. The centre for disease control also announced one more death from the virus taking the total number of deaths to 22. “Thirty-eight new cases of COVID-19 have been reported; 23 in Kano, 5 in Gombe, 3 in Kaduna, 2 in Borno, 2 in Abia, 1 in FCT, 1 in Sokoto and 1 in Ekiti. “As at 11:10 pm 20th April there are 665 confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported in Nigeria. Discharged:…

The police in Osun State intercepted a car carrying the corpse of suspected COVID-19 patient into the State from Ibadan, Oyo state. The car was intercepted around 6:30 PM on Sunday at the Odo Oba border along Ibadan/Iwo road by operatives enforcing lockdown order in Osun. According to a source, the medical team at the border suspected the corpse to have died of COVID-19 in Oyo State. It was gathered by our Correspondent that a Mazda 323 car, ash colour with registration number KFS 409 EH which was used to convey the corpse was driven by one Ismaila Ademola. It…

US oil prices crashed to unprecedented lows on Monday turning negative for the first time in history amid the devastating coronavirus pandemic. That means oil producers are paying buyers to take the commodity off their hands over fears that storage capacity could run out in May. Demand for oil has all but dried up as lockdowns across the world have kept people inside. As a result, oil firms have resorted to renting tankers to store the surplus supply and that has forced the price of US oil into negative territory. The price of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate (WTI),…

A man in India has cut off his own tongue in an attempt to appease a deity and stop the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos has announced that from next week begin enforcement of wearing of face mask in public faces. In a press briefing on Monday at the State House, Marina, Lagos, the governor said the state was taking new measures to curb the spread of coronavirus in the state. The governor said one million of locally made face mask have been contracted to tailors and will be distributed during the week. Lagos is the epicentre of coronavirus in Nigeria with 376 cases, more than half of the total number of confirmed cases in the country. Governor Sanwo-Olu also…

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos has said patients who lie about their travel history will be prosecuted. He disclosed this during a press briefing at the State House Marina on Monday. He said “These patients do not only endanger their lives but the lives of our front line medical personnel, we already have some names and they will be prosecuted duly”. “We would therefore like to appeal to our health workers to raise alarm as soon as they notice anything of sort,” he stated. The governor also said that the state will enforce the wearing of face mask in public…

The Ramadan edition of the emergency neighbourhood food markets, instituted to alleviate the effects of the lockdown and promote social distancing in the fight against COVID-19 in Lagos, comes up on Wednesday, 22nd April, 2020. The State Commissioner for Agriculture, Prince Gbolahan Lawal, disclosed on Monday that the neighbourhood food markets will hold in 27 selected public schools within 14 Local Government Areas of the State. Lawal pointed out that the neighbourhood food markets were basically set up to provide Lagosians access to food supplies during the lockdown, with a view to preventing panic buying as a result of the…

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna is not in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) says his Chief of Staff, Muhammad Sani Dattijo on Monday. There have been claims on social media that the Kaduna governor was in ICU after he said he was still coronavirus positive four days ago. El-Rufai tested positive for coronavirus on 28 March but is yet to test negative for the virus although the governor has been working from his isolation some persons still peddled the news that he was in ICU. I am still coronavirus positive – El-Rufai To prove the doubters wrong, Dattijo had a…

A former governor of Kano state senator Rabiu Kwankwaso on Monday donated Amana Hospital to the Kano State Government to help in the fight against COVID-19. A statement by his media aide, Saifullahi Hassan, explained that the gesture by Senator Kwankwaso was his contribution to assist the “management committee overcome this epidemic”. “His Excellency Engr. Dr Kwankwaso has contributed Amana Hospital to the Kano State Government to aid the Covid-19 Management Committee overcome this epidemic. The statement explained that, “Amana Hospital is newly built, fully equipped with 60-beds capacity, completed last month and it has not yet been commissioned. Kano…

A pregnant woman has died in Sindh Province in Pakistan due to starvation amid the lockdown imposed to prevent the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), news reports say. A report in ‘Express News’ mentioned the woman died in the town of Jhudo in Mirpur Khas district in Sindh province. Allabakhsh, the woman’s husband said he was left with no work owing to the lockdown due to which he was facing problems in managing food for his family that also included six children. Pregnant nurse dies from coronavirus but baby is ‘well’ Allabakhsh said he did not even have the money to…