The Nigerian Immigration Service has blocked 58 medical doctors from leaving the country through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos via a chartered flight today July 10. A statement released by the Immigration spokesman, Sunday James, says the doctors had planned to sneak out of the country via …
Read More »US buys up almost entire world supply of COVID-19 drug remdesivir
The U.S. has bought up almost all of the world’s supply of remdesivir, one of only two drugs shown to work against the new coronavirus. Remdesivir, which was developed to treat Ebola, is produced almost exclusively by US pharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences – and it has been priced at $2,340 …
Read More »72 health workers test positive for Coronavirus in Enugu
The Enugu State Ministry of Health has said that 72 health care workers in the state have tested positive to COVID-19. The state Commissioner for health, Dr Ikechukwu Obi, disclosed this in a statement released today June 26. He said the 72 infected health workers were among a total …
Read More »Doctors’ Strike: This Is The Most Sincere Govt Nigeria Has Ever Had – Health Minister
Dr. Osagie Ehanire, Nigeria’s Minister of Health, has called on the members of the National Association of Resident Doctors in Ngeria, to call off their strike action and return to work. According to him, the striking doctors should believe the promises made so far by the Buhari-led government as this …
Read More »Doctors’ Strike: This Is The Most Sincere Govt Nigeria Has Ever Had – Health Minister
Dr. Osagie Ehanire, Nigeria’s Minister of Health, has called on the members of the National Association of Resident Doctors in Ngeria, to call off their strike action and return to work. According to him, the striking doctors should believe the promises made so far by the Buhari-led government as this …
Read More »Doctor killed and burnt in Zamfara
The Zamfara State Police Command has launched an investigation into the gruesome murder of a medical doctor identified as Enoch Okpara. Okpara who was a consultant Obstetrics/Gynaecologist working at the Federal Medical Centre in Gusau, was found dead at his residence in Mareri area of the state capital on Saturday June 13. …
Read More »Coronavirus spread by people with no symptoms appears to be ‘very rare’ says WHO official
The spread of Covid-19 by someone who is not showing symptoms appears to be rare, Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization’s technical lead for coronavirus response and head of the emerging diseases and zoonoses unit, said during a media briefing in Geneva on Monday. “From the data we have, …
Read More »Equatorial Guinea sacks WHO rep for “falsifying” the country’s figures of Coronavirus cases
Equatorial Guinea have reportedly sacked a representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) for “falsifying” the country’s figures of Coronavirus cases. AFP confirmed the news, citing a document from the foreign ministry and a source at the UN health agency Representative Triphonie Nkurunziza is accused of “falsifying” the country’s tally …
Read More »WHO suspends hydroxychloroquine trial as COVID-19 treatment
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday May 25, announced that it has suspended the use of hydroxychloroquine in solidarity trial for the treatment of COVID-19. The WHO’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in light of a paper published last week in the Lancet that showed people taking hydroxychloroquine were at higher risk …
Read More »Coronavirus: more than 40 cases of Covid-19 linked to church service in Germany
More than 40 churchgoers who attended a service after lockdown was eased in Germany earlier this month have contracted coronavirus, officials say. The service was held on 10 May at a Baptist church in Frankfurt. Church officials say they followed social distancing rules and disinfected the building ahead of the …
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