HEALTHWISE

LAGOS: First Bank Nigeria PLC has advised customers who had been in contact with one of its staff, Abdullahi Lawal, in Kano State to go for self-isolate themselves. According to a statement issued by Folake Ani-Mumuney, the Group’s Head, Marketing and Corporate Communications, also stated that it has shut the …

ABEOKUTA – The National Association of Government General Medical & Dental Practitioners (NAGGMDP), Ogun State Chapter, has refuted the recent claim by Dr. Tomi Coker, the Commissioner for Health, on Channels Television that “frontline health workers made up health workers working day-to-day in various hospitals, including the isolation centres, had …

ODEDA OGUN STATE: In her efforts to curtail and prevent community transmission of the Coronavirus disease, Odeda Local Government has embarked on Community based screening tests for residents of the LG Area, in order to determine their health status. According to a press release e-signed and made available to StarTrend …

Governors of the 36 States of the federation on Wednesday, April 22, 2020, “unanimously” agreed to the implementation of an inter-State lockdown in the country over the next two weeks to mitigate the spread of the pandemic COVID-19 virus from State to State. The governors, operating under the aegis of …

ABEOKUTA: The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has commended the Ogun State Government for its willingness to go an extra mile at ensuring that the State was fully ready to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. The Director General, NCDC, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu who made this known on Tuesday, April 21, …

EPE LG, LAGOS: The Executive Chairman, Epe Local Government Area, Hon. Adedoyin Adesanya has said that it was imperative for the residents of the local government area to provide their blood sample for test for Coronavirus at the newly set up Covid-19 testing centre in Epe, Lagos State. Adesanya made …

The latest information on the covid-19 pandemic, according to figures published by Johns Hopkins University, 2,480,709 cases have been detected worldwide, with 170,399 deaths and 652,982 people now recovered. In Nigeria, there have been 665 cases, with 22 deaths and 188 people recovering from the virus. Obey government and health …

ABEOKUTA: The Ogun State Ministry of Health last weekend announced two additional cases of confirmed COVID-19 patients, just as it said facilities for mobile testing would be made public this week. According to a press release e-signed and made available to StarTrend Int’l magazine & www.startrendinternational.com by S.F. Ojo, SA …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has advised governments imposing lockdown restrictions to provide palliatives for their citizens to enable them to comply. WHO’s Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, asked at a press briefing in Geneva on Monday, April 12, 2020 asked, ‘How do you survive on lockdown when you depend on your …

LAGOS: LASUTH CMD said the patient’s corpse has been evacuated with usual protocol, adding that her husband’s blood sample has been taken for COVID-19 test. The Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) says it has placed four of its nurses on isolation, after their contact with a patient who died …