The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, says 81 per cent of countries in Africa have received medical supplies to support health workers. The first UN Solidarity Flight which is part of a larger effort to ship lifesaving medical supplies to 95 countries departed Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to various countries on April 14.

The Chairman, Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Sokoto state chapter, Dr Sani Abubakar, has been confirmed positive to Coronavirus. Abubakar disclosed this via his social media platforms on Tuesday. ”One of my unpleasant responsibilities is when I have to break bad news to my highly cherished brethren. It became worse now that it is about me.

The team of 15 Chinese medical professionals who arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on April 8, 2020, with medical equipment worth about $1.5 million, is expected to complete the mandatory 14-day isolation period today.

The team is expected to begin work tomorrow after the completion of the 14-day quarantine period. The invitation of the Chinese doctors by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 was highly criticized by most Nigerians especially doctors under the aegis of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA).

The Nigeria Medical Association on Sunday said treatment of persons who tested positive for COVID-19 should be done at the designated isolation or treatment centres across the country.

President of the association, Dr Francis Faduyile, who spoke to our correspondent in Abuja on the backdrop of the revelation that the late Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, was treated at a private hospital in Lagos before his death, said the complex nature of treating COVID-19 cases informed the decision to create special treatment centres for those

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has approved the increment of hazard allowance for all health workers in the state public service for this month  from N5,000 to N25,000.

The governor had yesterday, while giving update on the pandemic coronavirus at the State House, Marina, Lagos, promised to increase the allowance of the health workers, whether in the frontline of the COVID-19 duty or not. In a circular No. 045, dated today and released by the Head of Service (HoS), Hakeem Muri-Okunola, the governor appreciated the dedication of the workers,

The new coronavirus pandemic could severely disrupt access to anti-malaria nets and drugs in sub-Saharan Africa, the World Health Organization said Thursday, warning that malaria deaths risked doubling if efforts are not urgently scaled up.

The UN health agency called on countries in sub-Saharan Africa, where nearly 95 percent of all the world’s malaria cases and deaths occur, to rapidly distribute malaria prevention and treatment tools now before they become too overwhelmed with novel coronavirus cases.

No fewer than 80 people have benefitted from the Lagos State Government Free Medicare plan for the expectant mothers and emergency/casualty cases in Alimosho General Hospital, Igando. 

The hospital Medical Director, Dr Madewa Adebajo, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lagos that the measures were to cushion the effects of lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19. Adebajo told NAN that a sizeable number of people in the local government area had benefitted from the free healthcare initiative.

Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, disclosed on Thursday that 40 health workers have tested positive for coronavirus while on frontline duty to save others from the disease. Apart from the 40 health workers, the minister added that a reasonable number have also been quarantined in the last two weeks due to exposure.

He made the disclosure on Thursday at the daily briefing on the update by the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, in Abuja. Against this development, Enahire advised the health workers to take all necessary precautions for their own safety,

The global coronavirus crisis will not end any time soon, with many countries still in the early stages of the fight, health experts have warned as researchers revealed the first US deaths from the disease came weeks before the alarm was raised there.

The COVID-19 pandemic has killed more than 180,000 people and infected 2.6 million, and nations are struggling to check its spread with social distancing measures and lockdowns, while trying to repair their virus-ravaged economies. Some have started to slowly ease restrictions as pressure mounts on governments to find ways to reopen their societies after tens of millions of jobs were wiped out.

A lecturer at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), Dr. Chidi Ezeihu, is seeking approval from the federal government and the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) for the clinical trial of his drugs to treat patients of the COVID -19 pandemic.

Ezeihu, who is also an expert in alternative medicine, said he strongly believes that his ‘Salvage A and B’ formula which he has been using to treat HIV patients may have the capacity to kill SARS COV -2 which he said was the organism responsible for COVID-19 virus. He disclosed that he came up with the drugs during the peak of the HIV/AIDS crisis.