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Passengers Watch In Horror As Covid-19 Patient Dies In Plane

LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Passengers have watched in horror as a man with coronavirus died inside aeroplane. According to Dailymail, passengers sitting in various parts of the crowded cabin took photos as the drama unfolded before them which saw paramedics attempt to revive the passenger who was pronounced dead shortly after an emergency landing in New […]

Dec 21 2020 | Posted in Health,International,National | Read More »

Covid-19:Nigeria Records 3 Deaths, 501 New Cases As Kaduna Urges Staff To Work From Home

LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC), has reported 501 new infections of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak in the country. The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Sunday. Since the beginning of the outbreak in February, more than 874,617 samples have been tested by NCDC, out of which […]

Dec 21 2020 | Posted in Health,National | Read More »

Covid-19 Hits Speaker, Clerk Of Niger State House Of Assembly

LAGOS DECEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Speaker of the Niger State House of Assembly, Abdullahi Bawa, and the clerk of the House, Abdullahi Kagara have tested positive for Coronavirus. Both the Speaker and Clerk have since gone into self-isolation. The Commissioner of Information in the State, Muhammed Idris, confirmed this to Channels Television on Sunday. According to him […]

Dec 20 2020 | Posted in Health,National | Read More »

Nurse Faints On Television 17 Minutes After Getting Covid-19 Vaccine

LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-If you’re known to faint from pain or the sight of needles, perhaps volunteering to get the COVID-19 vaccine live on television isn’t a wise choice. But one Tennessee nurse didn’t let it stop her from getting the jab on camera and, unsurprisingly, collapsing minutes later. Tiffany Pontes Dover, a 30-year-old mother-of-two […]

Dec 19 2020 | Posted in Health,International,National | Read More »

Covid-19 2nd Surge:Lagos Gov Imposes Curfew, Bans Concerts, Carnivals, Street Parties

LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Friday said Lagos may slip into a second wave of Coronavirus pandemic, if residents failed to comply with the precautionary measures against the spread of virus. The governor disclosed that of every 100 tests that the state has performed, an average of 10 turn out […]

Dec 19 2020 | Posted in Health,National | Read More »

Nigeria To Get First COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Next Month

LAGOS DECEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria expects to receive its first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine in January, the country’s health minister said on Wednesday, but officials do not yet know which one they will get. Africa’s most populous nation has not been as hard-hit by the coronavirus pandemic as others on the continent such as South […]

Dec 17 2020 | Posted in Health,National | Read More »

Again, Covid-19 Hits Lagos State Governor

LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos State governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has tested positive for the coronavirus after he was exposed to a confirmed case. “A PCR test performed yesterday the 11th of December has confirmed that he has indeed been infected with the virus,” Lagos State commissioner for information Gbenga Omotoso said. The commissioner said the governor […]

Dec 13 2020 | Posted in Health,National | Read More »

Australia Scraps $750m vaccine Project After Shot Wrongly Gives People Positive HIV Test Results

LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Australia has become the first country to scrap a coronavirus vaccine project after a shot developed as part of the $750 million plan led trial participants to falsely test positive for HIV. The University of Queensland and the Australian biotech firm CSL had been conducting clinical trials on a prototype vaccine with […]

Dec 13 2020 | Posted in Health,International,National | Read More »

Advocacy Group Condemns UK Plan To Introduce Covid-19 Vaccine ID Cards

LAGOS DECEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Plans by UK government to hand over a Covid-19 vaccination identity card proving they have received the sought-after coronavirus jab and urged to keep it with them at all times has come under attack. “Boris Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccination card could ‘pave the way’ for a full national ID system while creating a two-tier county where […]

Dec 8 2020 | Posted in Health,International,National | Read More »

United Nation Removes Marijuana From List Of World’s Most Dangerous Drugs

LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs voted on Wednesday to remove cannabis and cannabis resin from a category of the world’s most dangerous drugs, which could impact the global medical marijuana industry. The Vienna-based UN agency said in a statement that its 53 member states had voted 27-25, with one abstention, to […]

Dec 4 2020 | Posted in Health,International,National | Read More »