Health

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed an additional 170 confirmed new cases bringing the toll of infection in Nigeria to 2,558.

Nigeria has on Saturday recorded 220 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, bringing the country's total to 2388, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said. In a tweet, the NCDC said Lagos State recorded the highest number of new infections with 62, followed by FCT with 52, while Kaduna recorded 31 and Sokoto had 13 cases.

American authorities have given green light to the experimental drug Remdesivir on Friday, May 1, for emergency use on seriously ill COVID-19 patients, after a major trial found that it boosted their recovery. Remdesivir, an antiviral drug, was given the green light in serious COVID-19 patients. The approval of the drug initially developed to treat Ebola by US regulators is the latest step in a global push towards finding viable treatments and a vaccine for the COVID-19, which has subjected the entire world in severe affliction.

The Presidential Task Force on the coronavirus has arrived in Kano state on the order of President Buhari to investigate the mystery behind the alleged deaths that have hit the state recently.

The national coordinator of the presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Sani Aliyu has chid states for competing on which states get the highest confirmed cases of the coronavirus.

Coca Cola Company through its philanthropic foundation has given a grant to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to help in the fight against the Coronavirus in Nigeria.