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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…