LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Nigeria plans to create a 500 billion naira ($1.39 billion)coronavirus fund to strengthen its healthcare infrastructure to tackle the virus, the government said on Saturday. Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed, House of Representatives speaker Femi Gbajabiamila and Senate President Ahmad Lawan agreed in a meeting that the crisis intervention fund would pull…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Government says it has so far treated and discharged 24 Coronavirus patients following their full recovery from the virus. Four of them, including an eight-week-old baby girl who was admitted alongside her mother were discharged earlier today The Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi who made this known while…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The US on Friday set a new record for the number of COVID-19 deaths in one day with 1,480 dead, the most of any country since the pandemic began. That topped the record set by the US the previous day with 1,169 deaths. More than 57,000 people have died from COVID-19, and…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The US economy shed 701,000 jobs last month as the coronavirus crisis brought the nation’s nine-year hiring streak to a screeching halt, new federal data show. The losses in non-farm payrolls reflected a massive contraction from February, when the economy added a revised total of 275,000 jobs, the federal Bureau of Labor…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-News surrounding the COVID-19 out break in China keeps on getting darker and darker. The Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China has made a preliminary announcement about how the government is planning to compensate the poor victims of COVID-19 in Wuhan, Hubei province. Liu Ken the minister of finance…
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The President of the National Association of Resident Doctors, Dr Aliyu Sokomba, has revealed that a doctor treating COVID-19 patients at the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Edo State, has been infected with the diseases. Sokomba said this on Thursday while on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme. He said six doctors had died…
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-More than 1 million people worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus, according to the latest data. The gut-wrenching data from Johns Hopkins University also show a death toll topping 50,000. At 4 p.m. Thursday, 1,002,159 people were confirmed infected across the globe while 51,485 people have died. The US has more…
LAGOS APRIL2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A city in China has banned its residents from eating dog and cat meat with a groundbreaking new law in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Animal activists have demanded the Chinese government prohibit the consumption of pets for years, and the new accord is the first of its kind in the country. …