Health

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has called on State governments to intensify efforts to ramp up sample collection and testing for coronavirus. The DG said that no matter...

  Over 95,000 confirmed #COVID19 cases on the African continent - with more than 34,000 recoveries & 2,995 deaths. View country figures & more with the WHO African Region COVID-19...

South Sudan's Information Minister and government spokesman, Michael Makuei, has tested positive for the Covid-19 coronavirus. He is the third top official in Juba to inform the public about his...

The GHS latest update on Wednesday night indicates that the number of recoveries from the illness now stands at 1,898. The death toll remains 31. Regional breakdown The Greater Accra...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has apologized to Zamfara State Government for wrongly accrediting eight positive cases of coronavirus to the State on Tuesday. NCDC on Tuesday confirmed...

It said that "a number of his office staff and bodyguards" had also tested positive for Covid-19. Mr Machar said on state television that he would be in self-isolation for...

Makinde noted that the new cases are from a yet to be named company in Ibadan, the State capital. With this, the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Oyo...

President Muhammadu Buhari has made a u-turn on the expected nationwide broadcast. “No presidential broadcast on COVID-19 updates today. Rather, the Presidential Task Force will during its usual media briefings...

Nigeria on Sunday recorded 338 new cases of coronavirus. This brings the total number of cases in Nigeria to 5959. The tweet read: ““338 new cases of #COVID19; 177-Lagos 64-Kano...

The ministry confirmed 158 more recoveries, bringing the total to 3,645. The ministry did not report any new fatalities. The country’s death toll stands at 192 Morocco’s current recovery rate...