Japan is set, this week, to revise a law allowing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to declare a formal state of emergency over the coronavirus if needed, as Abe faces persistent criticism for his handling of the outbreak ahead of the Tokyo Olympic Games.
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Saudi Arabia on Monday suspended flights to and from nine countries as a precautionary measure to control and curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, the official Saudi Press Agency reported.
Italy is facing its “darkest hour” as it battles against the novel coronavirus crisis, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said in a Monday interview, quoting from Winston Churchill.
“Over the past days I thought back to about what I read on Churchill: it is our darkest hour but we will make it,” Conte said
Hundreds of thousands of women on Monday converged on the streets to celebrate a Hindu festival in Southern India, considered the largest gathering of women, amid fears over the spread of coronavirus.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has reassured Nigerians of working hard with the Lagos State Ministry of Health and Ogun State to monitor all contacts of the index case of COVID-19 in the country.
The confirmation was made on Monday by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control
The Federal Road Safety Corps has reacted to the alleged arrest of vehicle conveying a pregnant woman in labour in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
Frontline advocacy foundation against irregular migration and human trafficking, Journalists International For Migration, has called on the Osun State Government and other well meaning Nigerians regarding the condition of a returnee, Benjamin Sesan Ojo, that requires urgent medical attention.
The International Emergency Management Society West Africa chapter has called on the Governments of affected countries in the region to impose an international travel ban on government officials until further notice as the novel coronavirus continues to spread across the globe.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday met with Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday sent messages to Presidents Hassan Rouhani and Moon Jae-in of Iran and South Korea respectively and the Prime Minister of Italy, Guiseppo Conte, expressing “deep sympathies” following increasing incidents of the deadly Coronavirus in their countries.
The NCDC Director General, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, disclosed this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Abuja
The five-storey hotel in Quanzhou, a Chinese city, was used as a quarantine facility to monitor people who had close contact with carriers of the disease
All his contacts are being traced in the city
The World Health Organisation has called on all countries to continue efforts that would be effective in slowing the spread of COVID-19, as confirmed cases surpasses 100,000 globally.
According to her, the belief in many communities that a woman cannot get pregnant soon after delivery if she is breastfeeding is not totally correct
Off the coast of California, some 3,500 passengers and crew aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship, which has been held since Wednesday, remain in limbo after 21 people tested positive for the virus
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, says the three travellers from France, England and China suspected of having COVID-19 have tested negative.
Two fake surgeons, Gado Ahmed and Salihu Suleiman, on Friday appeared in a Magistrates’ Court in Ilorin, Kwara State for allegedly performing an appendectomy on a woman without her consent.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says the country requires N1.6 billion emergency funding to fight Coronavirus (COVID19).