Osun has recorded its highest confirmed cases of the coronavirus infection with 120 new cases in 48 hours. It recorded 73 cases on Tuesday and 47 cases on Wednesday, according to the data published by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) for both days. This brings its total case counts Continue Reading
Osun State has Recorded Five Death from Covid-19 Related Complications According to data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, published on Tuesday, Osun’s five fatalities accounted for 33.3 percent of the 15 deaths recorded in Nigeria in the last 24 hours. This saw the state’s Covid-19 related deaths gallop to 32 out of the 1,458 confirmed […]Continue Reading
Nigeria has recorded 457 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of persons who have tested positive in the country to 44,890. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made the announcement Wednesday night through its official Twitter handle. According to the tweet, the 457 new cases were from 21 states. Lagos reported the […]Continue Reading
Kwara State has officially been designated a test centre for COVID-19 pandemic by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). Chairman of the State’s Medical Advisory on COVID-19 Dr Femi Oladiji in a statement says the NCDC has approved the automated GeneXpert laboratory, which is stationed at the COVID-19/Infectious Diseases Centre, Alagbado Ilorin. The GeneXpert Continue Reading
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC has recorded 544 new COVID-19 cases in the country. NCDC announces the new cases via its Twitter handle on Sunday, as total confirmed infection raised to 28,711 out of which 645 people died from the virus. A breakdown of the figure of new cases shown below:Continue Reading
594 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria; Lagos-159Delta-106Ondo-44FCT-34Edo-34Oyo-33Kaduna-33Enugu-28Katsina-25Imo-22Adamawa-15Ogun-12Osun-11Abia-8Rivers-6Nasarawa-5Bauchi-5Niger-5Kebbi-4Ekiti-3Plateau-1Taraba-1 22,614 confirmed7,822 discharged549 deaths Source: NCDCContinue Reading
675 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria; Lagos-288Oyo-76Rivers-56Delta-31Ebonyi-30Gombe-28Ondo-20Kaduna-20Kwara-20Ogun-17FCT-16Edo-13Abia-10Nasarawa-9Imo-9Bayelsa-8Borno-8Katsina-8Sokoto-3Bauchi-3Plateau-2 20,919 confirmed7,109 discharged525 deaths Source: NCDCContinue Reading
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 627 new cases of COVID-19 in the country, bringing the total number of infections to 15181. The NCDC made the announcement via its official twitter handle on Friday night at 11:44 AM – Jun 12, 2020. The figures and the states are as stated below: NCDC […]Continue Reading
Residents of Abeokuta have continued to express concern over the huge number of Coronavirus infections recorded in Sagamu and the state in general in the last two days. One hundred and four of the one hundred and eight new COVID-19 cases in the state announced yesterday were from a company in Sagamu. The Nigeria Centre […]Continue Reading
Twelve new cases of Covid-19 have been reported in Nigeria, 9 in Osun, 2 in Edo and 1 in Ekiti State As at 12:30 pm 1st April, there are 151 confirmed cases of covid-19 reported in Nigeria. Nine have been discharged with two deaths. Current State-by-State breakdown: Lagos- 82 FCT- 28 Osun- 14 Oyo- 8 […]Continue Reading
University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan has been certified and added as another testing centre for COVID-19. This is contained in a Twitter handle of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC. With the inclusion of UCH’s Virology Laboratory, the number of labs that have capacities to test for Coronavirous is now 6. Others are NCDC National Reference […]Continue Reading
Our family is deeply saddened to inform you of the sudden death of our beloved Father, Uncle, Brother, and friend, Engineer Suleiman Achimugu. The former Managing Director of Pipelines and Product Marketing Company of Nigeria, PPMC) died of COVID-19 on 22/03/2020 some days after he arrived in Nigeria from the United Kingdom. He was in self-isolation upon […]Continue Reading
The Japanese government is to support the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) with funds towards addressing the current health challenges in the country The Japanese Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Kikuta Yutaka, stated this at this year’s Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Day in Abuja. Mr Kikuta Yutaka said the Japanese government would continue to […]Continue Reading