LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has issued a travel ban on 13 countries over the COVID-19 pandemic. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation Boss Mustapha made the announcement at a media briefing on Wednesday. The affected countries are the United State of America, the United Kingdom, China, Japan, Iran, Switzerland, Norway, Netherland,…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There seems to be panic everywhere as the Federal Ministry of Health has announced five new cases of Coronavirus bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Nigeria to eight. Nigeria gathered that all the five new cases had a travel history to the United Kingdom and the United States. The Minister…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At a news conference Thursday, President Donald Trump addressed the question of the hour: How long will it take for things to go back to normal? “People are talking about July, August,” he said. But that inquiry, many doctors and scientists say, is the wrong question. “We need to change the conversation…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control has advised that mass gatherings of any type should be discouraged as the fear of a possible outbreak looms. In an update released by the NCDC on Monday afternoon, the National Epidemic monitoring team is on top of situation in the country as the global transmission…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Political skirmishing between Washington and Beijing escalated Tuesday when China announced it was expelling expelling U.S. journalists working for three American news outlets in response to Trump administration restrictions on Chinese media here. U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo condemned China’s action and accused the Chinese of imperiling world health by…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), Abuja chapter, have announced they would be embarking on an indefinite strike beginning from today March 17th, amidst the Coronavirus pandemic. Rising from an emergency meeting this morning, the doctors in a statement released by its president, Roland Aigbovo, said they deliberated extensively on the health…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 800 inmates broke out of four prisons in São Paulo, Brazil, after the Justice Department announced it was postponing a work program that allowed inmates to leave jails amid the coronavirus panic. The massive jailbreak came as Brazil confirmed its first coronavirus-linked death Tuesday, a 62-year-old man who died Monday afternoon…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, said on Tuesday that the new case of Coronavirus came in through British Airways. The PUNCH reports that Nigeria recorded another case of COVID-19 in Lagos State, Nigeria on Tuesday. The affected person is a 30-year-old Nigerian lady, who returned from the United…
