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China has on Thursday announced that the biggest drop in new cases of the coronavirus has been recorded, since its outbreak, indicating that the disease control efforts are working, AFP reports.

Lagos State Government Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has on Wednesday confirmed that the second case of Lassa fever has been recorded since 2017, at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba. Although, details about the patient and location was not disclosed.

The National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) is set to carry out the Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) in nine selected states as the 2020 round of the elimination exercise.

 The deadly Coronavirus sweeping across Asia has killed up to 97 persons in just one day. So far, it has killed over 1,000 people in China.

The number of death from the corona Virus, a deadly disease that has hit China has risen to 811 in the Mainland, the Chinese National Health Commission disclosed.

A Japanese man with a suspected coronavirus infection has died in hospital in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the Japanese foreign ministry said Saturday. Punch reports that the victim, in his 60s had been hospitalised due to severe pneumonia and the hospital reported his death to the Japanese embassy in China.