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.
Nigeria has on Sunday recorded 91 additional cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), making the total number of confirmed cases to 1273, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said. According to a tweet by the NCDC, 43 cases were recorded in Lagos State, 8 in Sokoto, 6 in Taraba, and 5 in Kaduna and Gombe.
Following the concept of “immunity passports” or “risk-free certificates” which argues that individuals can only contract the Coronavirus once, being peddled as a way of allowing people protected against reinfection to return to work, the World Health Organization, WHO has recanted against the unproven theory as well as proposals for reopening society that is based on this supposed immunity.
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has advised the Federal Government for an extension in the lockdown ending 27th April 2020, ahead of the imminent review of the lockdown imposed by the President Muhammadu Buhari in Lagos, Ogun and the FCT.
