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616 Nigerians dead as Covid-19 infections exceeds 27,000
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 626 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 27,110. Thirteen deaths were recorded from the virus on Thursday bringing the total number of confirmed deaths from the virus to 616. The Ondo commissioner for health, Wahab Adegbenro, was…
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Emergency phase for Lassa Fever outbreak now over – NCDC
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has declared the emergency phase of the 2020 Lassa fever outbreak, over. This, according to the agency, follows a successive decline in cases below the emergency threshold, and an epidemiological review carried out by it (NCDC) and the World Health Organisation (WHO). On January 24, 2020, the NCDC…
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BREAKING: Trump promises Nigeria ventilators, after phone conversation with Buhari
President Donald Trump on Tuesday had a telephone conversation with President Muhammadu Buhari and declared support for Nigeria on the fight against COVID-19 pandemic. Minister of information, Lai Mohammed disclosed this at the daily media briefing of the presidential task force on COVID-19. He said the US president promised to send across ventilators to Nigeria.…