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. …
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Last month, residents of Kiryas Joel, a New York village of 35,000 Hasidic Jews roughly an hour’s drive from Manhattan, began hearing about a promising treatment for the coronavirus that had been rippling through their community. The source was Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, 46, a mild-mannered family doctor with offices near the village….
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A commercial driver who tested positive to the novel coronavirus has absconded fron an isolation centre in Niger state. A commercial driver who tested positive to coronavirus in Niger State has escaped from the isolation centre in Bida where he was being managed. Similarly, one of the returnees from Côte d’Ivoire, simply…
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Twelve of the 127 Osun State indigenes who returned to the state last week have tested positive to coronavirus, with state officials saying the figure is likely to increase as 80 other results are being expected. Seven buses brought the 127 Nigerians from Abidjan, Cote d’voire and they were intercepted by the…
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A Russian military transport plane is on its way to the US, carrying medical equipment and other supplies required to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The shipment, cited by many as a public relations coup for Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, began on Wednesday following a telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump forty-three…
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Dutch officials have recalled tens of thousands of masks imported from China and distributed to hospitals battling the coronavirus outbreak because they do not meet quality standards. They received a delivery of masks from a Chinese manufacturer on March 21, the health ministry said in a statement. The masks did not…