The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, said a total of 119 people with COVID-19 symptoms have been identified in the state. Abayomi at a briefing on Tuesday said a tota... Read more
President Donald Trump has announced that the U. S. had suspended funding of the World Health Organization, WHO. He made the announcement on Tuesday, saying the decision was because WH... Read more
Opening windows and blinds may stop the coronavirus “settling” indoors, scientists have said. The previously-unknown strain mainly spreads face-to-face via infected droplets expelled in a co... Read more
Hoping to ward off a global pandemic with no known cure, Americans have turned to increasingly desperate options: swallowing fish tank cleaner, popping colloidal silver, chugging A... Read more
On Sunday, Virginia’s New Deliverance Evangelistic Chu rch announced on Facebook that pastor Bishop Gerald Glenn had died. Before his death, Glenn tested positive for COVID-19... Read more
Coordinator of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, Dr. Sani Aliyu, said on Monday in Abuja that testing was not recommended in the absence of symptoms because COVID-19 might not s... Read more
A teenage girl in California killed herself after she reportedly struggled to cope with the state’s stay-at-home orders amid the coronavirus outbreak. Jo’Vianni Smith, 15, of Stockton... Read more
Some professional associations in the health sector on Sunday said Nigeria must step up its testing capacity to successfully battle the spread of COVID-19. The groups, including the Nigerian... Read more
The mayor of an Italian town famous for its bonfire celebrations on Good Friday was forced to apologise after locals turned up to pray with the priest in defiance of a coronavirus lockdown.... Read more
New York City to keep school closed till end of 2020 The US death toll in the coronavirus outbreak topped 20,000 on Saturday, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. The outbr... Read more