The Chinese government says it has confirmed a suspected case of another infectious disease known as the bubonic plague. This development comes a few months after the first outbreak of COVID-19 was reported in Wuhan, China. According to Xinhua news agency, one suspected case was reported in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The health commission said the plague was diagnosed in a herdsman [...]
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On March 3, 2020, in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organisation (WHO) expressed concern about how shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), including masks, was affecting health workers across the world. The organisation listed panic buying, rising demand, hoarding and misuse as part of the factors responsible for the non-availability of PPE, and called on governments and [...]
Documents seen by TheCable have shown that Nigeria is indebted to China to the tune of $3.121 billion dollars as of March 31, 2020. According to the Debt Management Office (DMO), this represents 3.94 percent of Nigeria's total public debt, which stood at $79.303 billion as of March 31 (N28.6 trillion). Nigeria's total debt to China also accounts for 11.28% of the [...]
Beijing, capital city of China, has recorded 36 new COVID-19 cases bringing the total number to 79. According to Global Times, the sudden spike was recorded after a short period of calm. The 36 new cases recorded on Sunday have been traced to a large market known as Xinfadi in the capital's Fengtai district. A lockdown has been placed on the market [...]
Another outbreak of the coronavirus has been reported at a wholesale market in Beijing; creating fear of another wave of the pandemic. The current COVID-19 pandemic started as an outbreak in at a seafood market in Wuhan, China. BBC reports that the district where the new outbreak was reported has been put under strict lockdown, extending to 11 neighbourhoods. A total of 47 [...]
The Chinese city of Wuhan, where coronvairus broke out in December, reportedly conducted 6.5 million COVID-19 tests in 10 days. According to the state media, Wuhan embarked on a citywide nucleic acid testing drive which came after six new cases emerged in a residential community earlier in the month. The nucleic acid tests are said to function by detecting the virus genetic [...]
Paris Club, an informal group of officials from 22 creditor countries, says it is confident that China will join debt relief efforts being undertaken by bilateral and multilateral credit institutions. Odile Renaud-Basso, Paris Club chair, told Bloomberg in an interview that China has participated in meetings where other creditors reached an agreement. "It has not always been easy, but they have been [...]
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) says China blocked the World Health Organisation (WHO) from sounding the alarm on COVID-19 in January. According to Newsweek, the intelligence agency said China was stockpiling medical supplies from around the world at the time. So far, the globe has recorded 4,527,823 cases of COVID-19. While 1,706,406 people have recovered from the disease, 303,438 have died. The [...]
Wuhan, a city in China's Hubei Province, where the coronavirus outbreak began, has reported new clusters of the virus after easing its lockdown. The outbreak was first reported in the city in December 2019 and has spread across 212 countries and territories around the world. In March 2020, the Chinese authorities announced that the city and its surrounding province reported zero case [...]
A significant percentage of male patients have tested positive for COVID-19 in Nigeria. This is according to the latest situation report of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) for May 6. According to the breakdown, of Nigeria's current total of 3,145 cases, 2,163 are male while 982 are female. In fact, when compared to the figures for Wednesday, according to the cases [...]
Osagie Ehanire, minister of health, says Nigeria is expecting another set of COVID-19 materials from China. Speaking during the presidential task force briefing on Wednesday, the minister said ventilators are expected to be included in the materials from China. In March, Jack Ma, co-founder of Alibaba, Chinese e-commerce company, donated medical kits to Nigeria to fight the coronavirus pandemic, while the consulate-general [...]
The Chinese embassy in Nigeria has berated those demanding compensation from the Asian country over the COVID-19 pandemic. The coronavirus was first recorded in Wuhan, China, and the country has been accused of mismanaging the outbreak. The embassy, in an article published in The Guardian, took a jab at Oby Ezekwesili, a former minister of education, who said the country must "pay [...]
Osagie Ehanire, minister of health, says Chinese doctors who are in Nigeria to assist in the fight against coronavirus tested negative for COVID-19. On April 8, a 15-man team from China arrived in Nigeria with medical supplies to aid in efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic. On the team are doctors and nurses who completed their mandatory 14 days quarantine on April 22, after [...]
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