Trump told reporters at the White House that evidence he had seen gave him a “high degree of confidence” the virus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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“Yes, yes I have,” he said, declining to give specifics. “I can’t tell you that. I’m not allowed
Goma, the Democratic Republic of the Congo – Delcasse Lukumbu lies awake at night on the dirty concrete floor of Goma’s Munzenze prison fearing for his life. Surrounded on all sides by hundreds of inmates, the political activist, who was sent to Munzenze a few weeks ago, has no way of keeping a safe distance from others to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
“It will spread like a fire,” Lukumbu said on the phone last week. “As soon as one person catches the virus, we will all catch it within hours.
More than 2,400 mostly male prisoners are currently housed
Hundreds of angry protesters, some carrying firearms, gathered at Michigan’s State Capitol in Lansing on Thursday to protest against Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s request to extend the state of emergency to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
The protests came as state legislators debated a measure refusing the governor’s request and voted to authorise a lawsuit challenging her authority and actions to combat the pandemic.
At one point during the legislative deliberations, dozens of protesters – many without face coverings and some with rifles slung around their chests – entered the Capitol and demanded to be let into the House chamber, which was
The report released on Friday by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction or SIGAR said US forces have classified all casualty information from Afghan national defence and security forces for the first quarter of 2020.
John F Sopko, who heads the watchdog, wrote that data on the Taliban and other rebel attacks “was one of the last remaining metrics
Access Bank PLC is planning to cut salaries of its workers to prevent job losses as lockdown occasioned by coronavirus has drastically affected its income.
Sources in the bank told Bloomberg that the reductions were expected to start from May unless business conditions improve.
The sources who said they were briefed on the matter during a conference call, said some management staff would get as much as a 40% decrease in their salaries.
A spokesman for Lagos-based Access Bank declined to comment.
Nigerian banks are facing the threat of rising …
Former Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has aired his disapproval of an alleged depopulation scheme by the Federal Government of Nigeria.
Fani-Kayode alleged that the Presidency seeks to reduce the Nigerian population by approving a bill that makes it compulsory for every Nigerian to take a vaccine developed by the Gates Foundation.
…He wrote; ”I’ve warned about the dangers of the vaccine that will be proposed as the answer to #COVID19. This will result in millions of deaths. Nigeria is trying to pass a law that will make it compulsory to take that vaccine as part of the world depopulation
On Thursday, Lagos recorded 45 new cases, which represents a drop from the 87 highest cases recorded on Wednesday.
It currently has 976 confirmed coronavirus infections, according to the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC.
The state is likely to ramp in more than 24 cases today to take its total coronavirus infections above 1,000.
So far, Lagos, with 976 confirmed cases, has recorded 21 deaths and has 756 …
Coronavirus has wiped out a whole family in the United States, killing father, mother and their son.
The invisible enemy killed the Mayorga family, a Nicaraguan family in Miami Florida over three weekends.
Though the son was the first to be diagnosed with the virus in mid-March, it was the father, Mario Mayorga that was first taken away, according to a grieving relative Marcela Lastre.
Mario Mayorga, right. he first contracted the bug
Mario died on 10 April, followed by his wife Esperanza on 19 April. Both were aged 72.
Their son, 42 year-old Mario Jr followed on 26 April.…
The Governor said he is ready to take responsibility for any consequence of approving such drugs.
Bala, who was the COVID-19 index case in the state, revealed that he was treated with “chloroquine and Zithromax.”
The Governor stated this while providing an update on COVID-19 in the State at the Government House, Bauchi on Thursday
“Our medical team is using their own ingenuity to use chloroquine
Nigerians have reacted to the surge in coronavirus cases in Kano state, as the state for the first time recorded more cases than Lagos.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday night confirmed 80 new cases for the state, its largest for a single day.
Lagos has 40 cases and 976 overall.
As of Thursday, 30 April, Kano has 219 coronavirus cases and 5 deaths.
The state has now overtaken Abuja for the second position after Lagos.
The hashtag, Kano, is currently trending on Twitter with over 70,000 tweets.
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A bright doctor from the West African country of Nigeria Babafemi Taiwo is leading part of a major study on antiviral drug Remdesivir appearing to treat COVID-19, the potentially deadly respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus, which has killed more than 200,000 people around the world.
CNN interviewed Dr. Taiwo, whose name suggests he is a twin from the southwestern part of Nigeria, to discuss the promising results. Remdesivir, the antiviral drug made by Gilead Sciences, appears to help coronavirus patients recover more quickly than no treatment at all, but it does not significantly reduce death, according to preliminary data …
Co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates has provided a list of things that must be done to enable life return to normal again.
Gates said he is particularly excited about pursuing a new approach called ‘RNA vaccine,’ with code needed to produce viral fragments on its own.
Gates’s list contains what governments across the world must do if life is to go back to normal.
The billionaire businessman has been adding his voice, making suggestions on ways to fight the Coronavirus pandemic.
In an interview with White House Infectious disease expert Dr Fauci, on Thursday night, Gates listed four things that
