Coronavirus Updates
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NIGERIA: Catholic church offers all its health facilities as isolation centres
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TV3 to hold roundtable discussion on Ghana’s pandemic by 4pm TODAY
On 12th March, 2020, Ghana’s Minister of Health Hon. Kwaku Agyeman-Manu announced at a press conference that Ghana had confirmed its first two cases of the Novel Coronavirus; both cases, he noted, we…
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CHINA: Wuhan sets to test 11million residents as virus breaks out second time
The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the virus first emerged, is drawing up plans to test its entire population of 11 million people for Covid-19. The plan appears to be in its early stages, but all dist…
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NIGERIA: Police arrests 1,400 for breeching social distancing in Lagos
Police in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos, have arrested 1,400 people in just a week for flouting measures to stop the spread of coronavirus after the lifting of a lockdown. The measures include …
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Kenya orders hospitals to test all patients for covid-19
Kenya’s health authorities have announced that all patients being admitted to hospitals will have to be tested for coronavirus. This is to ensure that health workers are protected from infections whe…
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Nigeria joins Ghana, others in requesting Madagascar’s COVID19 herb
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the presidential task force on COVID-19 to pick up Covid-Organics, Madagascar’s self-proclaimed plant-based remedy for coronavirus. Boss Mustapha, secretary to…
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SENEGAL: Govt eases lockdown as churches, mosques reopen from TODAY
Senegal is easing coronavirus restrictions starting Tuesday, including reopening of mosques and churches. Mosques are now allowed to reopen for prayers during the holy month of Ramadan, and churches …
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RUSSIA: Fire outbreak burns 5 covid-19 patients in ICU to death
A fire at a St Petersburg hospital has killed five coronavirus patients in an intensive care unit. The blaze was apparently started by a short-circuit in a ventilator, Russian news agencies reported.…
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Tesla boss, Elon Musk reopens California plant despite warnings amid pandemic
Tesla has reopened its only US electric car plant in California, despite local orders against manufacturing. On Monday, the company’s chief executive Elon Musk tweeted that production had restarted a…
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More than ¢44m lands into Ghana’s COVID-19 Trust Fund
The COVID-19 National Trust Fund of Ghana has so far received about forty-four million, nine hundred thousand Ghana Cedis in donations since it was established. The fund was set up by government to r…