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By Hamilton Nwosa(Head, The New Diplomat Business and Data tracking desk) Zimbabwe has confirmed its first case of the coronavirus as the pandemic reaches a health system that has nearly collapsed amid an economic crisis. The southern African nation's health minister, Obadiah Moyo, said the infected man lives in Victoria Falls, one of the most…
March 20, 2020
Soldiers were being drafted in to help enforce the lockdown in Italy on Friday as officials announced 627 new deaths, the largest single-day toll anywhere in the world since the coronavirus outbreak began. Desperate scenes have unfolded in the north of the country, particularly the hard-hit Lombardy region where infections first exploded last month, as…
March 20, 2020
The Lagos State Government will be conducting clinical trial on the effectiveness of chloroquine in the prevention or management of COVID-19 infection, the Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi has said. Abayomi who disclosed this today while giving updates on COVID19Lagos noted that that the clinical trial is initiated against the fast spreading news that…
March 20, 2020
By Angela Baldwin What do malaria and COVID-19 have in common? On the surface, not much. But according to early research, an old malaria drug called chloroquine might also work for the new coronavirus. Could a decades-old malaria drug work to treat COVID-19? Elon Musk seems to think so, recently tweeting that it "might be worth…
March 19, 2020
The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that while Africa so far had seen few cases of COVID-19, the continent should “prepare for the worst”. “Africa should wake up,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists in a virtual news conference. Tedros said that to date, 233 cases of the new coronavirus had been registered…
March 19, 2020
By Praveen Duddu One Asian country and six European countries are among the ten most affected list of countries with coronavirus, while more European countries are witnessing a surge in cases. As many as 11 European countries are among the top 15 countries with the highest number of coronavirus cases in the world. As the coronavirus reaches more…
March 19, 2020
Italy and France have had their highest number of deaths from coronavirus in a day, with 475 and 89 more fatalities respectively. The Italy deaths - an increase of 19% in the last 24 hours - bring the country's total to 2,978. Italy also had a large rise in coronavirus cases, with 4,207 confirmed on…
March 18, 2020
Says Case on Self-Isolation before Testing Positive The Lagos State Government says it has started intensive contact tracing for the passengers that travelled with the third confirmed case of COVID-19 on board British Airways. The State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, made this known at a media briefing on Tuesday in Lagos. Abayomi said…
March 17, 2020
Coronavirus global death toll reached 6,501 Monday morning, with Italy accounting for 1,809, more than 50 percent of the 3,199 deaths recorded till date in China, where the virus began late in 2019. The number of cases also ballooned, 169,360 in 157 countries in the world. More people have now died of the virus outside…
March 16, 2020
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By Hamilton Nwosa(Head, The New Diplomat Business and Data tracking desk) Zimbabwe has confirmed its first case of the coronavirus as the pandemic reaches a health system that has nearly collapsed amid an economic crisis. The southern African nation's health minister, Obadiah Moyo, said the infected man lives in Victoria Falls, one of the most…
March 20, 2020
Soldiers were being drafted in to help enforce the lockdown in Italy on Friday as officials announced 627 new deaths, the largest single-day toll anywhere in the world since the coronavirus outbreak began. Desperate scenes have unfolded in the north of the country, particularly the hard-hit Lombardy region where infections first exploded last month, as…
March 20, 2020
The Lagos State Government will be conducting clinical trial on the effectiveness of chloroquine in the prevention or management of COVID-19 infection, the Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi has said. Abayomi who disclosed this today while giving updates on COVID19Lagos noted that that the clinical trial is initiated against the fast spreading news that…
March 20, 2020
By Angela Baldwin What do malaria and COVID-19 have in common? On the surface, not much. But according to early research, an old malaria drug called chloroquine might also work for the new coronavirus. Could a decades-old malaria drug work to treat COVID-19? Elon Musk seems to think so, recently tweeting that it "might be worth…
March 19, 2020
The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that while Africa so far had seen few cases of COVID-19, the continent should “prepare for the worst”. “Africa should wake up,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists in a virtual news conference. Tedros said that to date, 233 cases of the new coronavirus had been registered…
March 19, 2020
By Praveen Duddu One Asian country and six European countries are among the ten most affected list of countries with coronavirus, while more European countries are witnessing a surge in cases. As many as 11 European countries are among the top 15 countries with the highest number of coronavirus cases in the world. As the coronavirus reaches more…
March 19, 2020
Italy and France have had their highest number of deaths from coronavirus in a day, with 475 and 89 more fatalities respectively. The Italy deaths - an increase of 19% in the last 24 hours - bring the country's total to 2,978. Italy also had a large rise in coronavirus cases, with 4,207 confirmed on…
March 18, 2020
Says Case on Self-Isolation before Testing Positive The Lagos State Government says it has started intensive contact tracing for the passengers that travelled with the third confirmed case of COVID-19 on board British Airways. The State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, made this known at a media briefing on Tuesday in Lagos. Abayomi said…
March 17, 2020
Coronavirus global death toll reached 6,501 Monday morning, with Italy accounting for 1,809, more than 50 percent of the 3,199 deaths recorded till date in China, where the virus began late in 2019. The number of cases also ballooned, 169,360 in 157 countries in the world. More people have now died of the virus outside…
March 16, 2020
