LAGOS APRIL 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 61 persons are confirmed dead by a yet-to-be-diagnosed disease in Kano State. A Twitter user, who calls himself King of the North Muhammad Sanusi II raised the alarm on Sunday via his handle @MSII_dynasty. According to him, just yesterday 43 people were buried in a single cemetery in Kano…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian man who ran away from Ghana after testing positive for coronavirus has been declared wanted. A Nigerian man, 46 known as Simon Okafor Chukwudi has been declared wanted by the Police in Ghana on Friday, April 17. Chukwudi fled the country after he was found to have tested positive for…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says between May and September, it will begin mass testing for COVID-19. The centre disclosed this in its report detailing how it plans to scale up laboratory test for COVID-19 in Nigeria. Chikwe Ihekweazu, director-general of the NCDC, had earlier said there would be no…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Mr Abba Kyari, has died more than two weeks after he tested positive for COVID-19. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, announced Mr Kyari’s death on Twitter. Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari, passes on….
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…