LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Coronavirus was declared a pandemic Wednesday by the World Health Organization as cases spread to at least 114 countries. “WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock and we are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of inaction,” WHO Director Tedros…
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Carrying permits demanding “fast passage,” truck drivers rushed a 560-ton shipment of disinfectant from eastern China to Wuhan, the locked-down city of 11 million people at the center of a vast effort to contain a new viral disease. Outside the metropolis in central China, the cargo was shifted to local trucks with…
LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The first known coronavirus case in the US involving someone who had not traveled to China has surfaced in Illinois, health officials said Thursday. The patient, who was not identified, is the husband of the Chicago woman who became infected after making a trip to the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter…
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Wednesday said there was no specific cause for the deadly coronavirus yet. A statement released by the centre said the NCDC was working closely with the World Health Organisation to monitor the spread of the virus. It added that the Federal Ministry of Health had…