Confluence Reporters

Sodiq Oyeleke The National Orientation Agency has clarified that the coronavirus vaccine to be procured by the Federal Government does not contain a microchip.

Nigerians are beginning to express anxiety due to reports of a likely second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, amid an economic recession and job losses reputedly caused by the first wave of the pandemic.

No fewer than 20 new cases of leprosy have been recorded in Kogi state. 

A resident of Ibadan, Taiwo Olayide, in an interview with The PUNCH on Sunday, said, “Despite the fact that commercial buses are fully loaded with nobody observing social distancing, there are no security agents to enforce compliance.”

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State says worship centres in the state will reopen effective August 7, 2020.

Despite denying the COVID-19 index case reported for the state by Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Kogi State government has commenced active contact tracing to identify and test all those who came in contact with the disputed index case in the state.

Kogi State government has released more facts about the reported index case of COVID-19 in Kogi State by Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, telling Nigerians to be the judge.

Chief Tai Ejibunu, the Obatebise of Oweland, Kabba in Kogi state has called on the people of the state to abide by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) protocols on COVID-19 and stay safe.

Kogi State has recorded two cases of COVID-19 as the first cases to be recorded in the state in the last three months Coronavirus hits Nigeria.

• Ministry asks companies to submit samples to NAFDAC • Coronavirus has spread to 16 of our 20 LGs, says Ogun Olalekan Adetayo, Eniola Akinkuotu and  Daud Olatunji The Federal Ministry of Health is screening 19 local firms for the production of herbal drugs that can possibly treat or cure COVID-19, The PUNCH has learnt.

… We are going to send a team to Cross River next week The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, said on Friday at the daily rundown of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja that the Federal Government would bulletin its technical teams to validate the claims by Kogi and Cross River states that they did not have COVID-19 cases.

Benin on Saturday was conducting mass coronavirus testing of teachers ahead of the reopening of schools as part of a plan to loosen measures against the pandemic.

The drama between the Kogi State government and Nigeria Centre for disease Control, NCDC, may not end anytime soon as officials of NCDC fled Kogi State after governor Yahaya Bello ordered them to go into isolation for 14 days and be tested before they will be able to carry out their assignment in the state.

Emerging information may have disputed the claims of Kogi State government under Alhaji Yahaya Bello that Kogi State is 'Covid-19 free'.

Two sons of later Kogi-born medical doctor, Yakubu Aliyu, who was reported to have died of Civic-19 have accused Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, of manipulating the Covid-19 tests result of their father and that of the family.

The Katsina State Government announced on Friday that the wife and two children of the medical doctor, who died of COVID-19 in Daura, had tested positive to the pandemic.

Government has confirmed the death of a medical doctor, Dr Aliyu Yakubu, affected by the Coronavirus. The deceased, aged 60, died at the Nigeria Air Force Reference Hospital, Daura three days ago.

There is an atmosphere of joy as Lagos State government released eleven more coronavirus patients to rejoin the society after being tested negative.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has confirmed an additional five cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases to 35.

Cases of infection with the new coronavirus continue to surge throughout the world, and restrictions put in place by governments to contain the pandemic have confined one billion people to their homes in different countries.