LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The coronavirus pandemic has slammed New York City so hard that health care workers are using forklifts to load dead bodies into refrigerated trucks, according to a viral video. The 5-minute and 32-second clip posted to YouTube shows medical officials helping to load the corpses in body bags into the mobile morgue…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-When the coronavirus swept into Scandinavian countries, Norway and Denmark scrambled to place extensive restrictions on their borders to stem the outbreak. Sweden, their neighbor, took a decidedly different path. While Denmark and Norway closed their borders, restaurants and ski slopes and told all students to stay home this month, Sweden shut…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-For the past two days, New Yorkers have been dying at a rate of one every 17 minutes, according to the latest grim citywide statistics. On both Thursday and Friday, another 84 people died in the city from the coronavirus, as the number of positive cases and of those who are critically…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Italian Association of Doctors have confirmed the death of 51 doctors who all died after testing positive for coronavirus. The doctors succumbed to the disease as of Friday, according to CNN, citing the Italian Association of Doctors. The death toll comes after Filippo Anelli, the president of the association, on Thursday…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In a clear response to recent happenings across the globe, President, Loveworld Incorporated Reverend (Dr.) Chris Oyakhilome and Pastor Benny Hinn, have declared a Global Day of Prayer. This special prayer program is slated to hold tomorrow Friday, March 27, 2020 at 7pm GMT+1 or 2pm EST, and it will be broadcast…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government must think creatively and come up with ways of stabilising the Nigerian economy in the face of the negative economic impact of the Covid-19, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila has said. The Speaker said the House had on Tuesday passed the Emergency Economic Stimulus…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A McGill University student who is recovering from a COVID-19 infection has a message for anyone tempted to take the novel coronavirus lightly: listen to directives to limit contact with others. “It isn’t about what would happen to you if you got it,” Ntando, a 22-year-old studying psychology, said Friday. “It’s more important…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate postponement of the National Sports Festival, NSF, Edo 2020. This is as a precautionary measure to curb spread of COVID-19. This is coming even as the Lagos State Ministry of Health early Tuesday confirmed the third case of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Lagos. The Minister of…