Governor Babajide Sanwoolu has ordered that workers on levels 1-12 in the Lagos State Public Service should not go to work for the next 14 days. He is also appealing to the private sector to follow suit. The Governor made this known in a press conference which is currently taking place at Lagos House Marina.
Former Real Madrid president Lorenzo Sanz died on Saturday after being hospitalised with coronavirus. Sanz, 76, was president at the Bernabeu from 1995-2000, a period in which Real won the Champions League twice. “My father has just died,” wrote Sanz’s son Lorenzo Sanz Duran on Twitter. “He did not deserve this end in this manner….
The United Nations on Tuesday closed its New York headquarters to the general public to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, a spokesman for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said. The move comes one week after a similar measure was taken at the main UN building in Geneva. “As of now, we have…
A Nigerian man has tested positive for deadly Wuhan coronavirus in the United States of America. This was announced on Saturday night by the Mayor of District of Columbia (DC), Muriel Bowser, in a news conference. TruetellsNigeria learnt that the man whose name is yet to be ascertained, lives in Nigeria and is in his…
The Togolese Ministry of Health on Friday March 6, confirmed the country’s first coronavirus case. The patient who tested positive for the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 in the country, is a 42-year-old woman who recently travelled to Benin, France, Germany, and Turkey in late February and early March. In a statement released by…
The Lagos Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, yesterday said that Italian man will be discharged soon following up contacts Nigeria has one positive case out of 21 Two Chinese barred from Kaduna-Abuja train Nigeria has only one confirmed case of coronavirus as at yesterday, as the three suspects quarantined in Lagos have tested negative…
Samsung Electronics announced on Friday that it would temporarily move some of its smartphone productions from South Korea to Vietnam, as it has been forced to close its factory in the Asian country. The company’s spokeswoman said that the group had to suspend its operations at the factory in the Southern city of Gumi in…
US President Donald Trump, who has donated every one of his salary payments to government agencies or efforts since becoming president, has donated his 2019 fourth quarterly salary to the Department of Health and Human Services to help fight the coronavirus outbreak in the US. Trump made the payment after taking a trip to the National…
The House of Representatives has passed a resolution to suspend plenary for two weeks to enable the management of the National Assembly, put measures in place against the spread of coronavirus in the country. This was part of the resolution of the house, following a motion of urgent public importance by representative Uyime Idem, and…
The outbreak of coronavirus which was first noticed in Chinese City of Wuhan at the end of 2019, has now been confirmed in 75 other countries. While Iran has recorded the highest death toll outside China, Iran rose to 66, WHO has also announced that the number of new cases outside China rose nine times higher than…
