Tag: covid-19 patients
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11 COVID-19 patients die in South India after oxygen supply breakdown
At least 11 COVID-19 patients who were admitted in the intensive care unit (ICU) died following an oxygen supply breakdown at a government-run hospital in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, officials said Tuesday. The deaths took place Monday evening in Tirupati, about 408 km south of Amaravati, the main city of Andhra Pradesh.…
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I carry eternal life, will lay hands on Covid-19 patients and they’ll be healed – Oyedepo boasts
Presiding Bishop, Living Faith Church Worldwide, David Oyedepo has said he would lay hand on any Coronavirus patient brought to him for prayer. He said he would not wear gloves to do so but would lay his bare hands on the patient to receive healing. Oyedepo, who spoke at the church’s Covenant Hour of Prayer,…
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TB Joshua offers to pray, set Covid-19 patients in Isolation Centres around the world free
General Overseer of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) Pastor Temitope T.B Joshua Wednesday offered to virtually pray for COVID-19 patients in isolation centers around the world. The cleric, in an announcement on SCOAN’s YouTube channel Emmanuel TV, urged the government and medical authorities to “organize those who are in isolation” and “arrange how…
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Kano discharges 10 more COVID-19 patients
The Kano State Ministry of Health on Friday said it has discharged 10 more COVID-19 patients in the state. The ministry which stated this in a tweet on Friday said the state has also recorded eight fresh COVID-19 cases. With the 10 discharged patients on Friday, the total number of patients so far discharged in…
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Lagos raises alarm: Beware! More COVID-19 patients still on the run
The Lagos State Government on Thursday raised the alarm over alarming rate at which people who tested positive for Coronavirus are absconding from treatment. Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, at a news conference in Ikeja, Lagos, said the huge figures being announced as positive cases in Lagos were just on paper as there is…
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Lagos discharges 15 more COVID-19 patients
The Lagos State Government on Sunday discharged 15 more patients who recovered and tested negative to Covid-19 patients. Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu said in a statement that a total of 623 patients had so far been discharged from the state’s isolation centres. ”Good people of Lagos, 15 more COVID-19 Lagos patients; 9 females and 6 males,…
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Pregnant COVID-19 patient gives birth in Lagos
A pregnant covid-19 patient has given birth to a baby boy in Lagos State’s Isolation Centre. ”Today, a pregnant COVID19 positive patient was delivered of a baby boy through the caeserian section at the Gbagada Isolation Centre,” the State governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said on Twitter on Saturday. ”Both mother and baby are doing well.” The…
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Yobe discharges 6 COVID-19 patients, retains 21 active cases
Yobe State COVID-19 Committee on Prevention and Control has disclosed that six Coronavirus patients have been discharged including an index case, after full recovery from the virus. Vice-Chairman of the Committee and the State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Mohammed Lawan Gana disclosed this today in Gashua town, when he led members of an intensive community…
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Kaduna captures two fleeing COVID-19 patients
Security agents in Kaduna have arrested the two COVID-19 positive persons who disappeared from their homes after they were notified of their status. Commissioner of Health Dr. Amina Mohammad Baloni confirmed that they have been dragged to the isolation centre. Baloni’s ministry had declared the two persons missing. Government wanted them to come for treatment…
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Drama as COVID-19 patients lock up doctors, nurses in Kano
The isolation centres located at Kwanar Dawaki,in Kano state,when some COVID-19 patients held health workers hostage for four hours. The former chairman, Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) Kano branch, Professor Aminu Mohammed confirmed the aggrieved patients took two medical doctors and one nurse into captivity. He said the health workers were on routine medical ward round…