The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Tuesday announced five COVID-19 related deaths for Lagos State, increasing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 72. The NCDC made the disclosure in its COVID-19 Situation Report for June 8. According to NCDC, seven COVID-19 related deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours in three states Read More…
The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 315 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 12,801. The NCDC announced this on Monday through its official Twitter handle, noting that as at June 8, 315 new confirmed cases and seven deaths were recorded in the country. No new Read More…
Lagos recorded its first sub-50 number of new COVID19 cases in over four weeks as it reported 38 fresh cases on Sunday almost matching the number of discharged patients of 31. Testing stayed close to 2,000 daily tests across the country on Saturday. The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reports that so far 76,802 Read More…
While daily testing has been notched up even higher nationwide, there seems to be cause for smiles as the rate of new COVID19 cases in Lagos is steadily dropping. Though 1,935 tests were recorded nationwide on Friday, yet another high, Lagos reported 66 new COVID19 cases on Saturday, down from 121 new cases on Friday. Read More…
Mrs Cecilia Bolaji-Dada, Lagos State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, on Saturday advised women to embark on skills acquisition that would sustain them after the COVID-19 pandemic. Bolaji-Dada, who gave the advice at the monthly congress of the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), Lagos State Chapter’s Zoom Meeting, also enjoined women to Read More…
The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 328 new cases of the COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 11, 844. The NCDC announced this on Friday through it’s official Twitter handle, saying that as at June 5, 2020, 328 new confirmed cases and 10 deaths were recorded in the Read More…
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, says the state home-based treatment for COVID-19 patients will begin in the next two to three weeks. Abayomi made this known on Friday in Lagos while giving the state’s COVID-19 update. He said that the strategies for home/community-based management of COVID-19 patients would be defined and Read More…
It seems there is respite for Lagos as the number of new COVID19 cases dropped on Thursday to 102 in spite of the fact that the country recorded its highest number of tests on a single day. The country recorded 1,535 tests on Wednesday bringing the total number of tests nationwide so far to 71,336. Read More…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday said that Lagos, FCT and Kano state accounted for 64.2per cent of the total number of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic recorded in the country, The NCDC, on its website, said as at June 3, it recorded 348 new cases bringing the total total number of infection in Nigeria Read More…
Lagos State has recorded another eight COVID-19 related deaths, increasing the infection mortality in Lagos to 67, says the state Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi. Abayomi stated this in his verified twitter handle on Tuesday, adding that the deaths were recorded on Monday, June 1. Abayomi had earlier announced that the state recorded nine Read More…