The World Health Organization has raised an alarm that the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 could become endemic like HIV while warning against any attempt to predict how long it would keep circulating and calling for a “massive effort” to counter it. WHO emergencies expert, Mike Ryan made this known during an online briefing. “It is…
Groups Call For Action...Ask Buhari To Set Up Panel Of Investigation The washing ashore of dead fishes en masse along the Atlantic Coast of the Nigeria's Niger Delta in the last two months could lead to a major public health disaster and cause mass contamination in the region and beyond, the Association of Environmental Lawyers…
CAPPA Insists Lagosians Need Adequate Water Supply To Stop Covid-19 Spread LWC Says Most Communities Enjoying Improved Water Supply Since Covid-19 Pandemic Findings Corroborate The New Diplomat's Investigation on Lagos Water's N1.6bn Scam The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has faulted reports by the Lagos State government that most communities in the state…
Researchers at the Singapore University of Technology and Design predict that the coronavirus pandemic will end globally early next year. Their prediction is that the world would not be free of the virus until 5 January 2021. But some countries would be free earlier than the terminal date projected. The researchers used data-based estimations to…
Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19, Boss Mustapha on Monday said President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Task Force to pick up Covid-Organics --Madagascar’s self-proclaimed, plant-based ‘remedy’ for the virus. Mustapha said the plan is to get the product and subject it to analysis to see how it works, how it is used.…
A finding has revealed that men’s blood has higher levels of a key enzyme used by the new coronavirus to infect cells than women. This, the study says may help explain why men are more vulnerable to infection with COVID-19. The big European study showed that Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) is found in the heart,…
Confirmed cases of the coronavirus globally crossed 4 million on Friday night with death toll also soaring to 275,783. According to the latest statistics by worldometers.info, 94,198 fresh cases were recorded in about 210 countries, giving a grand total of 4,007,842 cases. The world’s hardest-hit United States recorded 27,444 cases and 1,603 deaths on Friday.…
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday called for clinical trials of Madagascar’s Covid Organics, a herbal drink that is said to prevent and cure patients suffering from the novel coronavirus or COVID-19. “We are advising the government of Madagascar to take this product through a clinical trial and we are prepared to collaborate with…
Researchers have detected the coronavirus in the semen of both infected and recently recovered patients, just like it was with Ebola virus. The findings were published May 7 in the journal JAMA Network Open. The presence of virus in the semen is a new dimension in the knowledge scientists are building up since last December,…