Lagos State recorded four more COVID-19 deaths on Saturday in a growing surge of the COVID-19 scourge. On the same day, it recorded 573 new infections. The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi in a statement published on Saturday, said that there were now 35,481 confirmed cases in Lagos State. He said that Read More…
The Lagos State Government has warned that law enforcement agents will continue to arrest and prosecute residents who violate COVID-19 guidelines and directives issued to curtail the spread of the deadly virus. A combined enforcement team of the Lagos State Police Command and the Lagos State Safety Commission arrested youths partying at a Lounge located Read More…
Cristina Lopez Garcia was excited to buy a house last February. It was an eight-minute drive from her job in the kitchen of a Las Vegas casino and she was confident that she and her husband could afford their new bills. But about a month after they moved in, that financial stability disappeared. The casino Read More…
Lagos still surges with 739 cases and two deaths The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 1,544 new infections of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. The NCDC, on its verified website on Friday, also confirmed additional 12 coronavirus-related deaths. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the country’s daily new infections accelerated to Read More…
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, says that the bed occupancy level in the state’s public and private COVID-19 care centres has increased to 51 per cent. Abayomi made this known through his verified Twitter account @ProfAkinAbayomi, on Friday while giving the state’s COVID-19 update for Jan. 6. He said that the Read More…
807 new cases reported in Lagos on a single day New COVID-19 cases are not relenting as 807 new cases have been reported for Lagos alone on Thursday. This represents a rise of 165 new persons contracting the virus. The Lagos State Ministry of Health reports that 238,967 persons have been tested in Lagos so Read More…
Athletes should be prioritised for the novel coronavirus vaccine so the beleaguered Tokyo Games can go ahead later this year, according to senior Olympics official Dick Pound. Canadian Pound, the longest-serving member of the International Olympics Committee (IOC), told Sky News in the UK that the Games could still go ahead with mass athlete participation, Read More…
Lagos still surges at 642 Nigeria recorded 1,664 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total infections to 94,369. the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said. The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Wednesday. The daily increase was a new record and considerably higher than Tuesday’s 1,354 confirmed cases. It said that Read More…
712 new COVID-19 cases have been reported for Tuesday Lagos has set a new daily record of COVD-19 infections reported with 712 in what is obviously an explosion in cases. According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Nigeria, on the whole, has recorded 1,354 new infections of the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19). . The Read More…
…records over 20 deaths in one week Lagos has recorded yet its highest single day incidence of COVID-19 infections of 654. According to the latest report from the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on the same day, there were 1204 new confirmed cases across Nigeria while seven deaths were recorded. Warning earlier about the Read More…