LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As many as 4,000 seriously ill coronavirus patients in New York are being treated with the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, state health official said. Presient Trump has tauted hydroxychloroquine as potential life saver, although there is no wide spread scientific evidence to date showing it helps battle covid-19. But Governor Andrew Cuomo last…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ten new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria: 6 in Lagos, 2 in FCT and 2 in Edo. As at 11:15 am 5th April there are 224 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. Twenty-seven have been discharged with five deaths. Radio Nigeria
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal government on Saturday night took delivery of its first batch of medical supplies in the fight against the spread of Coronavirus pandemic and for the treatment of those infected. Air Peace aircraft, Boeing 777 with registration number, 5N-BWI carrying the supplies landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja from…
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…