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China has revised the death toll data in Wuhan, city where the coronavirus outbreak began, by 50 percent and admitting people died at home and cases were missed or not reported. This adjustment, detailed in a social media post by the…

Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi has on Thursday afternoon confirmed the death of three Coronavirus deaths in the state. He said this while confirming the discharge of 18 Coronavirus cases in state earlier…

Total Coronavirus infection toll in Nigeria is now 323 after Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed five new cases on Sunday night.  The centre made this known in a tweet, adding that 2 of the new cases were reported in…

Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) said it has placed four of its nurses in isolation after their contact with a patient who died from complications of COVID-19. In an interview with NAN, Tokunboh Fabamwo, chief medical…

Akin Abayomi, commissioner for health in Lagos state, has announced the death of another COVID-19 patient in the state. He made the announcement via Twitter on Saturday morning, adding that the patient died in a private facility. We…

Health care workers at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Lagos Commissioner for health in Lagos state, Akin Abayomi, has confirmed the death of a Coronavirus patient, it emerged on Sunday.  According to a tweet from the commissioner,…

Nigeria has confirmed the second death from coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, announced this on March 30 at a press briefing in Abuja, the nation’s capital. This announcement is coming 7…

The United State has now confirmed Coronavirus cases more than any other country, with over 85,500 positive cases. According to the latest figures collated by Johns Hopkins University, this figure supersedes that of China (81,782 cases)…

Nigeria’s death toll from the Lassa fever outbreak has risen to 176, data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has shown. The country is now battling two deadly diseases: Lassa fever and COVID-19. The latter has…

Lagos State has on March 24 confirmed 4 additional COVID-19 cases. This was announced by Lagos State Ministry Of Health (LSMOH) in a tweet, adding that;  the total confirmed cases in Lagos now 29 cases.  #COVID19Lagos…

Italy has on March 20 drafted in soldiers to help enforce the lockdown in Italy as officials announced 627 new deaths, the largest single-day death toll anywhere in the world since the coronavirus outbreak began. The hard-hit unfolded…

Kevin Durant Kevin Durant is one of four Brooklyn Nets basketball players who have tested positive for the coronavirus. Only one player has shown symptoms, while the other three are asymptomatic. The Nets did not disclose the identities…

Algeria has announced its first confirmed case of the new coronavirus, an Italian man who arrived in the country on February 17 and has been put in isolation. The Algerian Health Ministry made the announcement of the confirmed case on…

Italy has on February 24 announced the death of a 84-year old patient infected with Coronavirus, which brings the death toll to 4, even as the number of people contracting the virus continues to mount. The region’s health department said it…

The Chinese government has said there are no Nigerians among the 29 foreign citizens in China infected with the coronavirus. China stated this on February 20 in its daily bulletin on coronavirus through its embassy in Abuja. Read Also:…