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Aliyu Yakubu, a medical doctor based in Katsina state, has died from the complications of COVID-19. Aminu Masari, governor of Katsina, broke the news at a media briefing on Tuesday. He said the doctor aged 60 died at the Nigeria Air Force Reference Hospital in Daura, three days ago. The governor said the deceased owned a private hospital in Daura and had visited his [...]
Ignatius Kaigama, bishop of Abuja Catholic diocese, says coronavirus has has reduced humanity to same level. Addressing reporters after celebrating Palm Sunday at Our Lady Queen of Nigeria Pro-Cathedral, Garki, Abuja, he said the pandemic had forced humanity to see everyone as equal and helpless without God. The mass was celebrated in an empty church as the few members who came for [...]
The Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, says it has placed three of its health workers in isolation after their contact with a patient who died of COVID-19. Ibrahim Mustafa, chairman of the LASUTH medical advisory committee, broke the news on Sunday in Lagos. Mustafa said two doctors and a nurse had contact with the patient, who later died at the [...]
The Association of Residents Doctor (ARD) at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) in Edo state says 25 doctors who had contact with COVID-19 patients have gone on mandatory self-isolation. The association said 13 of the 25 doctors were house officers, while 12 were resident doctors. ARD, however, expressed displeasure with the hospital’s management over what it described as poor handling [...]
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Benaoyagha Okoyen, the consul general of Nigeria in New York, has confirmed the death of three Nigerians who tested positive to COVID-19 in the United States. According to NAN, Okoyen made the announcement in a statement. The victims are a doctor from Abia, 25-year-old Bassey Offiong, and a 60-year-old female. “The first case was a 60-year-old lady, Hajia Laila Abubakar Ali of Kano [...]
The Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Lagos, says the 55-year-old man, who died from complications of COVID-19 tested positive for the disease before he sought treatment at the hospital. In a statement, Chris Bode, chief medical director of LUTH, said the patient was brought into the emergency unit of the hospital. unconscious on Wednesday. The deceased, who returned into the country from [...]
Preparations are ongoing for making THISDAY Dome in Abuja an isolation centre for coronavirus patients. As part of measures to tackle COVID-19, the private sector has joined the government in making provision for facilities that could be used for treatment. Construction work is ongoing at the facility in the federal capital territory (FCT) which has the second highest number of patients in [...]
Joe Osuji, commissioner for health in Abia state, has warned health institutions against rejecting patients with COVID-19 symptoms. In an interview with NAN, Osuji said there had been complaints that some patients with cough and cold, which are symptoms of coronavirus, were being rejected. “The problem we are having with health institutions now is that when a patient reports cough, or fever [...]
Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, says corpses of persons who tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) cannot be claimed for burial. He said such corpses would be handled by the ministry of health because they are contagious. He said this while speaking at a News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) forum in Abuja to give an update on the activities of the presidential task [...]
Garba Shehu, senior special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, has called on Nigerians to disregard Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka's reservations on the lockdown in Lagos, Abuja and Ogun states. Shehu said Soyinka's qualifications are in English literature and not medicine or science, stating that he does not qualify to be judged as a professional on the outbreak [...]
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