coronavirus

Tokyo 2020 Olympics organising committee’s president, Yoshiro Mori has on Tuesday said the event will be cancelled if the coronavirus pandemic isn’t brought under control by 2021. The Games which was originally scheduled to start…

Mohammed Atiku-Abubakar, son of Nigeria’s former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar has recovered from Coronavirus 40 days after testing positive. He made this known to Premium Times on Monday afternoon saying; I just received my second…

House of Representatives has decided to resume plenary on Tuesday, after a five weeks break due to Coronavirus. The leadership of the House decided to resume in order to consider the review of the 2020 budget as requested by the…

For the first time since 1957, the city of Miami in the United States has reportedly gone at least seven weeks without a single murder case. According to the Miami Herald report, the city which is dubbed as America's ‘murder capital’,…

A 24-year-old Indian man has been hospitalized after he allegedly cut off his tongue as an offering to the Hindu goddess Kali Mata, to stop the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. The Indian identified as Vivek Sharma is a young…

Another batch of 13 Nigerian returnees from Togo Republic have arrived at Seme Border Post in Lagos State in the early hours of Sunday, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The agency reports that the 13 returnees arrived the…

Chief Press Secretary to a State Governor in Nigeria has said the inter-state lockdown decision taken by the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) is to be effected by President Buhari on Monday.  The governor’s aide made this known to Daily…

Ondo State has reported three new cases of coronavirus, which brings the total number of infections in the state to seven. The state governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, announced this in a series of tweets on Sunday morning. He…

Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said Nigeria has the potential to produce vaccine for the treatment of COVID-19 if the education sector had been duly funded on all levels. Abiodun Ogunyemi, ASUU president, said this…

Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, has appealed to the President Muhammadu Buhari’s government to take urgent steps to reactivate the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) COVID-19 testing centre at the Aminu Kano Teaching…

Anambra state governor Willie Obiano has lifted restrictions of movement within the state, declaring the state Coronavirus free. The governor made this announcement during a special Coronavirus update on Saturday evening. Anambra…

Lagos State Ministry Of Health (LSMOH) has on Saturday announced the death of another Coronavirus patient. This was disclosed via the official Twitter handle of the Ministry of Health during the state’s daily Coronavirus update.…

Nigeria’s Coronavirus infection toll has surpassed 1,000 after Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed 114 new cases, it has emerged. This was made known on Friday night by NCDC in its daily Coronavirus report via its…

An Italian Model has aroused the curiosity of Scientists and Doctors after testing positive for the coronavirus 56 days on despite showing no symptoms. Biana Dobroiu, 23, was among the first to test positive in the Bologna region of…

The US Department of Homeland Security has said that Sunlight can kill coronavirus ‘within minutes’, it has emerged. The department said it had carried out research which shows that high humidity, temperatures and sunlight can kill…