Tag: Social Distancing
Lagos battles indifference as virus ‘tsunami’ looms
Hospitals in Lagos are facing a tidal wave of Covid as the authorities warn of the dangers from a new viral strain, yet many...
Lagos government relaxes 5-week-old lockdown policy
Following the culmination of the second phase of the lockdown on Lagos, Ogun and the FCT and the nationwide address by President Muhammadu Buhari,...
The verbal autopsies from Kano
Olusegun Adeniyi
If there is any lesson we have learnt from the past five
weeks, it is how difficult it is to enforce a meaningful lockdown...
Lagos discharges 14 COVID-19 patients, records 7th death
Osun discharges six
Lagos State on Wednesday discharged 14 patients after they
tested negative for the coronavirus disease and also recorded the seventh death
from the dreaded...
Akwa Ibom declares partial lockdown to celebrate Easter
The Akwa Ibom state government has relaxed lockdown measures taken to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease in the state up to 1pm...
Musings on coronavirus
Ijeoma Nwogwugwu
So much has happened since the outbreak of the novel
Coronavirus, labelled by scientist COVID-19 because of the year of its
discovery in China five...
Eti Osa tops LGAs with most confirmed COVID-19 cases in Lagos
The Lagos State commissioner of health, Prof Akin Abayomi yesterday released statistics showing that Eti Osa local government area leads the others with the...
How social distancing can impact your mental health
Social distancing and isolation can be hard, as New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently pointed out during a daily briefing on the status of...
Lagos government projects 39, 000 COVID19 cases unless…
Rolls out relief package for 200, 000 vulnerable households
The Lagos State commissioner of health, Prof Akin Abayomi has
projected a rise in the coronavirus disease...
COVID-19: FG on the trail of 4, 370 people of interest
14 new cases confirmed, total rises to 65
Six COVID-19 patients ready
to be discharged in Lagos
The minister of information and culture, Mr. Lai Mohammed,
has said...