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COVID-19: Enugu arrests patient who fled Delta isolation centre
Raphael Ede, Enugu The Enugu State Government on Tuesday said a COVID-19 patient, who escaped from Delta State Isolation and Treatment Centre was intercepted in the state and had been returned to Delta. A statement from the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi on Media, Louis Amoke, said following the development, the state COVID-19 …
Six killed as plane carrying medical supplies crashes in Somalia
Six people, including two pilots, were killed when a plane carrying medical supplies crashed in south-western Somalia on Monday, authorities said. “The cause of the accident is not yet known,” government spokesman Ismael Mukhtar Omar told dpa. The plane, which was carrying medical supplies needed in the fight against the coronavirus, took off from Baidoa …
COVID-19: Katsina shuts down Emir of Daura’s palace
The Katsina State Government has shut down the palace of the Emir of Daura as part of measures to contain the spread of COVID-19. Governor Aminu Masari, who made the disclosure in Katsina while giving updates on the COVID-19 situation in the state, said there was “no ulterior motive to the decision to quarantine the …
UPDATED: Lagos, Borno, Kano top as Nigeria’s COVID-19 deaths hit 93
Sodiq Oyeleke No fewer than six patients died of coronavirus-related complications in Nigeria within the last 24 hours, The PUNCH reports. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control confirmed this on its website on Monday while giving COVID-19 updates in Nigeria. It also said that the country recorded 245 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number …
Africa has been shoved out of COVID-19 diagnostics market —CDC boss
Angela Onwuzoo The Director, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, John Nkengasong, has said the collapse of global cooperation and failure of international solidarity have shoved Africa out of the global coronavirus diagnostics market. He decried the ‘low testing rate’ for COVID-19 in Africa, warning that no country could securely eliminate COVID-19 — or …
COVID-19: FG prepares 1,300-bed facility to isolate evacuees
Kayode Oyero The Federal Government says it has secured a total of 1,300-bed spaces for the isolation of Nigerians abroad willing to be repatriated into the country amid the pandemic. According to a statement by the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, an agency under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, disclosed this at …
COVID-19 deaths top 250,000 worldwide
The global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic topped a quarter of a million on Tuesday, with the US government predicting a further surge in fatalities as an international vaccine drive garnered $8 billion in pledges. The dire forecast from the United States came as much of the Western world emerged from weeks of lockdown, …
COVID-19: Akeredolu offers permanent jobs to volunteers
Kayode Oyero Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has directed the immediate absorption of all volunteering health workers at the frontlines of the coronavirus management in the state into the public service. He also approved the payment of 50% of the salaries of all health workers as hazard allowance. The governor, in a string of …
Driver sentenced to death for killing employer’s mother
Oluwatosin Omojuyigbe Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos State Special Offences Court, on Monday, sentenced a driver, Olalekan Hameed, to death for killing his employer’s 76-year-old mother, Jolasun Okunsanya. Justice Dada delivered the judgment in a virtual court session approved by the state Chief Judge, Justice Kazeem Alogba, in line with the Lagos State Judiciary …
Man making face masks stabs co-tailor to death
Deji Lambo A tailor, Afeez Ayodele, has been arrested by men of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly stabbing his co-worker, identified simply as Obiora, to death on the United Estate, in the Sangotedo area of Ajah. PUNCH Metro gathered that the company, where Ayodele and Obiora were working, was awarded a contract to …
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