A major study which was done by the National Institutes of Health has shown that Remdesvir, an experimental drug, has proved effective against the new Coronavirus....
US President, Donald Trump, says the country has a high record of coronavirus infections because it has an equally high testing rate. Trump stated this on...
South Africa’s Coronavirus cases have surged past the 5,000 mark on Thursday after it saw the largest single-day jump to date, health ministry figures showed. A...
Guinea-Bissau’s Prime Minister, Nuno Nabiam and three ministers tested positive for the novel Coronavirus on Wednesday. Health Minister, Antonio Deuna, confirmed this, revealing that they were...
Nigeria’s total COVID-19 infection toll surged to 1,728 after the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced 196 new cases in the early hours of Thursday....
Germany is now carrying out almost 900,000 tests a week for the novel coronavirus, officials said on Wednesday. “Today, we have a theoretically possible capacity of...
Lagos State Health Commissioner, Prof Akin Abayomi, has revealed that the coronavirus infection affects the kidney and the blood. He made this known on Wednesday morning...
The Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai took to Twitter to announce the relaxation of the lockdown order in the state. The governor revealed that restriction...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control announced 38 more coronavirus infections in Kano State as the testing rate increased in the North-Western states. This brings the...
The South American’s worst-hit country, Brazil has registered more than 5,000 deaths from COVID-19 pushing the toll above that of China, the health ministry announced on...
A suspected coronavirus patient at a government hospital in Ipe Akoko in the Akoko North-East Local Government Area of Ondo state died on Tuesday. According to...
Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State announced the death of three COVID-19 patients in the state late Tuesday night. This was contained in a two-paragraph statement...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced the reopening of the COVID-19 testing laboratory in Kano State a few days after it was shut...
The Nigeria Disease for Disease Control has recorded 195 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the country to 1532, TopNaija.ng...
The two COVID-19 patients who escaped from the isolation centre in Maiduguri have resurfaced on Monday. One of the two, Abbas Hassan, 24 male, who tested...
A COVID-19 patient has given birth to a baby girl in the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Surulere. The hospital, via its Twitter handle, @LUTHoffical, said the...
A tally by AFP revealed that over three million cases of coronavirus have been officially registered across the world. Nearly 80 percent of the cases were...
The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has disclosed that his late Chief Security Officer, Alhaji Lateef Raheem, died from COVID-19 complications....
On Monday, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced 64 new cases of the novel Coronavirus in Nigeria. The infection toll has now risen to...
The chairman of DAAR Communications Plc, Raymond Dokpesi (jnr) has tested positive for coronavirus, TopNaija.ng can confirm. He disclosed this in a short message to members...
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has extended the lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and the federal capital territory (FCT) by one week, TopNaija.ng can confirm. In a...
Jacinda Arden, prime minister of New Zealand, says the country has stopped community transmission of COVID-19, TopNaija.ng reports. With new cases recorded in single figures lately,...
Over 200 doctors have arrived in South Africa from Cuba to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The doctors, including community health and infectious disease specialists,...
13 medical workers at the Randle General Hospital, Surulere, may have been exposed to a COVID-19 patient who died at the medical facility. The workers, including...
The World Health Organization warned against “immunity passports” for recovered patients, seen as a possible tool for countries preparing to re-open their economies. The WHO opposes...
Taraba, Kebbi, Ebonyi and Bayelsa have recorded index cases of coronavirus, raising the figure of states that have confirmed at least one case of COVID-19 in...
A week after lifting the lockdown in Accra and Kumasi, Ghana has confirmed 271 new cases of Coronavirus. According to Ghana Web, Ghana Health Service...
Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has announced a 30 days extension of the COVID-19 lockdown in the state. The governor disclosed this via a Twitter...
France’s Coronavirus death rate has continued to slow as the nation reported 242 deaths in 24 hours, a drop of more than a third on the...
Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire; and the Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Chikwe Ihekweazu paid a visit to President Buhari on Sunday to discuss...
One of the four suspects recently arrested and arraigned for the killing of Mrs Funke Olakunrin, the daughter of the leader of Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti,...
The Ganduje-led Kano State government has finally admitted the increasing death rate in the state, describing it as a serious situation. The rising deaths in the...
Two COVID-19 patients are on the run after escaping from the isolation centre at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital in Borno State. The patients were...
Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, the Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has said Nigeria needs to stock more of the RNA extraction kits to...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has recorded 91 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of confirmed infections reported in the country to 1273,...
Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos state, has announced the state might resort to mass burials, as a way to congest crowded mortuaries in the state, TopNaija.ng...
An evangelical pastor in the United Kingdom, Jonathon James has been identified as the voice behind the viral recording linking 5G to the spread of COVID-19,...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has recorded over 1000 cases of coronavirus cases, TopNaija.ng reports. The health agency also said at least 32 persons have...
The Management of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Edo has ordered the compulsory use of face masks in its campus to curtail the spread of Coronavirus...
Two Lagos returnees and another staff of the World Health Organisation have tested positive for coronavirus in Bauchi State. This brings the total number of active...
