coronavirus patients

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved N6.45billion for setting up of oxygen plants in 38 locations nationwide to enhance the treatment of COVID-19 patients who need oxygen. While briefing the national executive council at a meeting in…

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has on Thursday said more coronavirus patients in the state are in need of oxygen amid second wave of the pandemic in the country and the world at large. Sanwo-Olu said this after a closed door…

Lagos State Government has provided more explanation on how it spends between N500,000 and N1 million to take care of COVID-19 patients in critical condition. Earlier in the week, the health commissioner, Akin Abayomi, stated that the…

Federal Government has said it is working towards getting more oxygen to attend to emergencies as coronavirus death cases increase. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation and PTF Chairman, Boss Mustapha, stated this in Abuja…

Lagos state Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has on Sunday announced the discharge of 56 more coronavirus patients after full recovery. Sanwo-Olu disclosed that those discharged consist of 12 female and 44 male, including 9 foreign…

Lagos State Ministry of Health has on Sunday announced the discharge of 45 more coronavirus patients after testing negative. The ministry disclosed this on its official Twitter page, saying those discharged includes 18 female and 27…

Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, has said there is an increase in the demand for oxygen by COVID-19 patients. Abayomi stated this on Friday during a Zoom webinar by the Lagos Civil Society against COVID-19.…

Lagos state government has accredited three private hospitals for the treatment and management of coronavirus patients. Commissioner for Health in Lagos, Akin Abayomi who made the announcement during a press briefing, said the…

UK medicine regulators have approved Britain’s first medicine to treat coronavirus, Remdesivir – a drug initially designed to treat Ebola virus victims. The clinical trials of remdesivir showed that the drug can shorten recovery time…

National Agency for Food and Drug Administration (NAFDAC) has announced the continuation of Hydroxychloroquine clinical trial as treatment for COVID-19 patients in the country. This comes a day after World Health Organization (WHO)…

Kaduna state Governor Nasir El-Rufai has said out of 18 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed in the state on Thursday, 10 are members of the same family. Announcing this in a tweet on Friday, El-Rufai stated that the new cases were recorded…

Federal Government has told coronavirus survivors to stop giving details of the drugs used for their treatment in a bid to discourage self medication. The Chairman, Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, made the plea at…

Lagos State Government has discharged 21 additional coronavirus patients from its isolation facilities after testing negative twice. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu who made the announcement via Twitter on Sunday, said 4 of the discharged…

Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi has on Friday revealed that many people who tested positive for coronavirus are running away from being taken to isolation centres for treatment. Abayomi said this is one of the reasons…

Ministry of Health in Lebanon has announced that 25 persons aboard a flight that arrived the country from Kano State on Wednesday have tested positive for COVID-19. In April, the government of Lebanon asked Middle East Airlines to…