LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The coronavirus pandemic could kill 300,000 people in Africa this year, even with assertive government measures to limit social interactions, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. Overcrowded slums with no access to water coupled with fragile health-care systems make the continent especially vulnerable to the disease, the Addis Ababa-based…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Preliminary results from government lab experiments show that the coronavirus does not survive long in high temperatures and high humidity, and is quickly destroyed by sunlight, providing evidence from controlled tests of what scientists believed — but had not yet proved — to be true. A briefing on the preliminary results, marked…
LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) on Thursday said the test results of 90 persons who showed symptoms of the dreaded COVID-19 disease have come out negative. The FCTA made the announcement in a tweet on its Twitter handle on Thursday. The 90 persons, according to the FCTA were from the Mpape…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A medical doctor in Lagos, Dr. Emeka Chugbo, has become the first health worker in Nigeria to die of COVID-19 after he contracted the virus from a patient he was treating. The doctor, who died at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Wednesday after being rushed to the facility Monday, was said…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thousands of protesters on foot and in vehicles converged Wednesday on Michigan’s capital to rally against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home orders in the state. “Operation Gridlock,” organized by the Michigan Conservative Coalition, created a huge bumper-to-bumper traffic jam around the Michigan Capitol Building in Lansing, Fox 2 Detroit reported. Meshawn Maddock, an…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, on Wednesday said he was still under isolation for testing positive to COVID-19 and is yet to be cleared of the disease. El-Rufai, who also chaired a virtual meeting of the State Executive Council for the first time since he was diagnosed, said he…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Denmark began reopening schools on Wednesday after a month-long closure over the novel coronavirus, becoming the first country in Europe to do so. Nurseries, kindergartens and primary schools were reopening, according to an AFP correspondent, after they were closed on March 12 in an effort to curb the COVID-19 epidemic. However classes…
LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As Covid-19 continues to spread in the kingdom, prayers will continue to take place at home, not in mosques Muslims will only be permitted to pray at home in Saudi Arabia during the upcoming holy month of Ramadan, the Saudi minister of Islamic affairs announced on Monday. This will remain the case…