LAGOS APRIL 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Nigerian seaport has recorded its first case of Coronavirus through a staff of one of the terminal operators at Tin Can Island Port Lagos. There were initial reports that the COVID-19 patient was a staff of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) but this position was refuted by the authority in a press…
LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria has recorded 114 new cases of coronavirus in the country, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 1095 with 32 deaths recorded and 208 patients discharged after fully recovering from the virus and testing negative twice. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC announced the new development on Friday evening…
LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barely two days to the end of the second round of a 14-day shutdown of the nation’s capital, Abuja as well as Lagos and Ogun states, the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control NCDC has hinted at the likelihood of the extension of the current lockdown, saying Nigeria has not gotten to the…
LAGOS APRIL 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)- A Chinese citizen journalist who vanished while probing a coronavirus cover-up in Wuhan has reappeared two months later, praising the police who detained him. In February, Li Zehua, who also goes by Kcriss Li, had interviewed Wuhan residents infected with the coronavirus and was investigating allegations of a local effort to…
LAGOS APRIL 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Doctors in the U.S., the world’s worst hit country by the coronavirus have found a new symptom for the virus. The symptom lies in the toes or fingers of the afflicted, especially in white people. It is called the Covid toe. The good part is that it appears in both asymptomatic and…
LAGOS APRIL 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The dreaded and deadly coronavirus has killed an Assistant Comptroller of Customs, G.A. Bamigboye at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan on Wednesday, April 23, 2020. According to a reliable source who would not want his mentioned, he said Bamigboye was serving in Kano before he decided to come to Ibadan for…
LAGOS APRIL 24TH (NEWSRANGERS) Seventy-two Nigerians awaiting evacuation in Guangzhou city, Guangdong Province of China have tested positive for the coronavirus disease. The results of the tests conducted on 56 Nigerians, which were released on Tuesday, indicated that the affected individuals were asymptomatic, raising concern that they might have infected other people. It was learnt that…
LAGOS APRIL 24TH (NEWSRANGERS) -Missouri became the first state to sue the Chinese government, citing “an appalling campaign of deceit” related to the coronavirus pandemic. The civil lawsuit was filed Tuesday in federal court by GOP state Attorney General Eric Schmitt, claiming Chinese officials are “responsible for the enormous death, suffering, and economic losses they inflicted on the world,…