The country’s Health Minister Julio Mazzoleni on Wednesday told a news conference that the 48-year-old president fell unwell during a trip to the east of the country and returned to the capital Asunción where the diagnosis was confirmed.
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The United Nations Children’s Fund says no fewer than 250,000 children in Nigeria die on their first day of life, describing the current indices for child health in the country as “alarming”.
Sanwo-Olu spoke on Wednesday in Lagos at the inauguration of medical equipment donated by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Limited to General Hospital, Odan, Lagos
The passenger of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link arrived in Hong Kong with signs of fever on Tuesday and was subsequently sent to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for checkups.
The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Ibrahim Tsanyawa, made the confirmation on Wednesday at an emergency press conference in Kano.
The information was contained in a public health advisory by the NCDC on Wednesday.
The Novel Coronavirus was first identified by Chinese researchers with the pathogen behind a mysterious illness that had sickened 59 people in Wuhan, a city of 11 million in central China.
Beijing has identified 440 patients carrying the virus across 13 Chinese provinces, said Li Bin, deputy director of the National Health Commission, according to state broadcaster CCTV.
In a study published in the journal Cell Reports, researchers from the centre showed that it is possible to rejuvenate the kidneys and improve their function using the patient’s own stem cells.
Heathrow is Europe’s busiest airport and while the risk to the UK population still remains low, over 200,000 passengers pass through the UK hub each day, with 17 flights arriving from China at Heathrow on Wednesday.
Fagbemi said this in Akure during a meeting between Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu and major stakeholders, including the local government chairmen in Ondo North and Ondo Central Senatorial Districts, on how to contain the spread of the disease in the state.
The agency predicted in the SRP Report in Abuja that the onset of the growing season expected to be near-normal to earlier than normal in most parts of the country.
Nigeria is expected to get a three-year grant worth $140 million (N50.75 billion) to tackle Tuberculosis in the country.
The Kano State Ministry of Health says it has not confirmed suspected cases of Lassa fever reported at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital on Tuesday.
Speaking during the official inauguration of the exercise in Umuahia, Okochi Okali, the General Manager of Abia State Road Maintenance Agency, said the exercise was initiated to address the issue of flooding in the state.
A spokesman told dpa that the baby, who weighed just 1,300 grammes at birth and had significant genetic defects, was undergoing an autopsy to determine the cause of death.
The Niger State Government on Tuesday said it has placed surveillance systems to arrest pipeline vandals and illegal water operators so as to attain its mandate of ensuring adequate supply of potable water across the state.
The Abia State University Teaching Hospital has written Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, refusing to waive 14 months salary arrears to receive the new minimum wage.
Ehanire made the pledge in his address at a meeting with the Secretary-General of D-8, Ambassador Ku Jaafar Ku Shaari, at the Ministry of Health, Abuja.
Cervical cancer occurs in the cells of the cervix, which is the lower part of the uterus that connects to the vagina.