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Governments around the world, due to the Coronavirus pandemic, has given restriction directives, self-isolation rules, stay-at-home orders as well as shutdown of schools and organization and flatten the curve. This restriction…

Testing kits that are due to arrive in the United Kingdom were found to have been contaminated with coronavirus, it has emerged. The UK government had ordered the testing kits with the aim of carrying out 25,000 tests per day by…

Lagos state government has on March 30 discharged five coronavirus patients from the Infectious Disease Centre, Yaba. MDB earlier reported that the state government had announced that six of the patients had recovered and would be…

Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu Nigeria has tested over 2,000 people for COVID-19, with less than 10 per cent testing positive. The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for…

Fourteen new cases of Coronavirus have been reported in Nigeria, 9 in Lagos and 5 in FCT, it emerged on Sunday night. According to Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), there are now 111 confirmed cases of Coronavirus…

Lagos state governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu speaking flanked by Lagos Commissioner for health, Dr. Akin Abayomi alongside other officials. Lagos state governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has launched a 110-bedspace isolation centre located in…

Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the coronavirus first emerged last year, began lifting a two-month lockdown partly on March 28 after more than two months of near total isolation for its population of 11 million. The city reopened…

Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said forty-three of Africa’s 54 countries now have confirmed coronavirus cases, with the total at 2,046. Though the tally is still low compared to figures in the United Kingdom,…

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced two new confirmed cases of Coronavirus in Nigeria.  According to the center’s tweet, one of the cases is in Lagos and the other in Ogun state.  It revealed that one of the cases is…

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…

Nigeria has shut down three international airports as part of measures to contain the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. The Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano, Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu,…

Prince Dapo Abiodun, Governor of Ogun State The Ogun State Government on March 19 said it has extended the ban of all high-density gatherings to school and worship centers in the state. The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Kunle…

China has on March 19 recorded zero new or suspected cases of Coronavirus in Wuhan and Hubei provinces three months after the first case was detected in December 2019.  The National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China…

Chad president, Idriss Deby Chad has shut its airports to all flights, over fears of the virus, despite not recording a case of coronavirus in the country. According to a recent statement by Chad’s government on March 17, the measure…

BARCELONA, SPAIN - OCTOBER 20: Mascots wearing Unite Against Racism shirts pose with Barcelona players prior to the start of the UEFA Champions League group D match between Barcelona and FC Copenhagen at the Camp Nou stadium on October…