Nigeria Develops COVID-19 Test Kits – Faster and more accurate.
Scientists in Nigeria have developed a cheaper and faster Covid-19 test kit that will enable testing to be ramped up in a place that has faced kit shortages and chronic under-testing of a massive population, according to the country's health authorities.
The new test is cheaper than other PCR tests -- the...
Coronavirus: Italy scrap final exams of 10,000 medical students, induct them into doctors
Italy scrap final exams of 10,000 medical students, induct them into doctors.
Italy will rush 10,000 student doctors into service, scrapping their final exams, in an effort to help the struggling health service cope with the coronavirus which claimed another 345 lives.
The death toll rose...
CoronaVirus: No Case of Corona Virus in Reddington Hospital Lagos.
PRESS RELEASE BY REDDINGTON HOSPITAL GROUP
It has come to the attention of the management of the Reddington hospital that rumours are circulating on social media of a case of coronavirus (COVID-19) at the Reddington hospital Ikeja. We would like to assure the public that there has been...
Urinary Tract Infection In Pregnancy Is Common but Downplayed.
Pregnancy is a state in which women experience a myriad of changes.
Many of which are normal and wouldn't be any cause for fright. However there are situations in which these changes become a harbinger of something sinister. Sinister enough to lead to Urinary tract Infections (UTI).
Lagos State Govt To Announce Total Lockdown due CoronaVirus
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu says a total lockdown is imminent if the cases of coronavirus continue to increase.
Sanwo-Olu said this while giving an update on the situation of the pandemic in the state at the State House in Marina on Friday.
Out of the...
Median incubation period for COVID-19
A University of Massachusetts Amherst biostatistician who directs the UMass-based Flu Forecasting Center of Excellence was invited by the White House Coronavirus Task Force to participate Wednesday morning in a coronavirus modeling webinar.
The four-hour, virtual gathering will include 20 of the world's leading infectious disease and pandemic forecasting...
BREAKING: Nigeria’s Federal Government Issues Travel Ban over #COVID19.
The Federal Government has issued a travel ban on 13 countries over the spread of the Coronavirus.
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation Boss Mustapha made the announcement at a media briefing on Wednesday.
The affected countries are the United State of America, the...
BREAKING: Highest number of COVID-19 cases, deaths in West Africa lies within Nigeria.
With 2,388 confirmed infections and 85 fatalities, Nigeria also has the highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths in West Africa.
Unarguably Nigeria now has the third-highest number of confirmed cases in Africa.
South Africa has the highest number of COVID-19 cases in Africa...
Pfizer Round Table Event on Breast Cancer Education and Prevention.
The month of October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Pfizer Pharmaceutical celebrated it in a unique way.
In a virtual media roundtable (a zoom webinar) on breast cancer, experts from across West Africa's leading health facilities. Topic? Breast Cancer Media Roundtable in Nigeria/Ghana.
The virtual...
Why is Coronavirus spreading quickly in America?
I think whether to wear a mask is a different challenge for China (East Asia) as it is in the West.
Most Westerners think that wearing masks is what patients do, so they lack the good habit of wearing masks. At least in normal times, it's hard for them...
