An elderly woman from Netherlands has become the first known person to die from catching Covid-19 twice, according to medical experts, raising questions about how long immunity and antibodies can last.
This is the first time someone is reported to have died from a second reinfection of coronavirus.
However there have...
Superstar footballer, Cristiano Ronaldo has tested positive for coronavirus while on International duty for Portugal
The Juventus striker is not suffering any symptoms, but is now self-isolating and will play no part in Portugal's clash with Sweden.
The Portugal's Football Federation said in a statement: "Cristiano Ronaldo was released from the...
A 33-year-old man from Telangana, India who made headlines after turning his puja room into a temple for US President Donald Trump has died while fasting for him to recover from Coronavirus.
Bussa Krishna who was concerned about the US President's health condition following his COVID-19 infection, died of cardiac arrest on Sunday October...
President Donald Trump has tested negative for COVID-19 on consecutive days and is no longer infectious to others, White House physician said on Monday night, October 12.
"In response to your inquiry regarding the President's most recent COVID-19 tests, I can share with you that he has tested NEGATIVE, on...
A former drug addict has shared dramatic photos of her incredible transformation after she quit drugs and alcohol.
Ainsley Loudoun from Kilmarnock, Scotland, said her life spiralled out of control with daily drug and alcohol binges.
She says she was on the brink of prison or suicide. She spent life from a...
US president Donald Trump, has posted an upbeat message about his health status after he was hospitalized following a positive test for covid-19 last week Friday.
The US leader who over the weekend was administered oxygen as he had difficulty breathing has taken to his Twitter handle on Monday night,...
US president, Donald Trump, was rushed to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday night to be treated for Covid-19 after announcing on his social media handles that he had contracted the deadly disease.
The hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, is the United States’ biggest military medical center that cares...
US President Donald Trump and the first lady Melania are exhibiting mild symptoms after testing positive for Coronavirus.
The US president and his wife revealed this morning that they had tested positive for coronavirus just one month before the US election.
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told reporters on Friday that...
The global coronavirus death toll has surpassed 1 million nine months after the deadly virus was first detected in Wuhan, China.
The first death linked to Coronavirus in China was reported on January 11, according to the World Health Organization.
America has accounted for over 20 percent of the worldwide COVID-19...
The first person to be cured of HIV in the World, has died after a battle with cancer
Timothy Ray Brown - known as the "Berlin Patient," made medical history when he was cured of HIV in 2007. He was first diagnosed with HIV while was studying in Berlin in 1995.
A decade...
A formerly overweight man named Rome succeeded in losing 80 pounds in just 10 months without doing anything drastic.
According to his fitness coach, he lost the weight by eating a "balanced whole nutritional diet" and undergoing moderate exercise. He added that there was "no starving himself, no silly 0 carb...
The United States Government, through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has approved an additional $2.1million for the Federal government to conduct a household survey to determine the extent of COVID-19 transmission in Gombe, Enugu, and Nasarawa States.
According to a statement released, the survey is expected to...
Famous Indian singer and Guinness World record holder, SP Balasubrahmanyam has died of COVID-19 at the age of 74.
The Legendary singer who is a Guinness World Record holder for his more than 40,000 songs over 50 years, died today after spending days in intensive care following his COVID-19 diagnosis.
He...
Authorities in Vietnam have seized 324,000 used condoms which were being recycled to be sold again to be the public.
Police confiscated the unlabeled rubber contraceptives during a raid at a warehouse located at DX12, Hoa Nhut Quarter, Tan Vinh Hiep Ward, Binh Duong Province, located in southern Vietnam over...
A six-year-old girl has reportedly died of COVID-19 just seven days after resuming school.
Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Mohamed Saka, shared the sad story on his Twitter handle. He stated that the little girl contracted the virus when she resumed school and later died from the disease. However...
China has announced that a Coronavirus vaccine may be ready for use by the general public as early as November, 2020.
Vaccine makers all over the world are racing to develop an effective vaccine against the virus which has already killed more than 925,000 people.
China already has four COVID-19 vaccines...
Israel has announced it will be going into a national lockdown for the second time amid a new surge in Coronavirus cases.
Israel fighting off a major death toll, now records over 4000 cases of the deadly virus daily.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the announcement in a televised speech on...
Bollywood actor, Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia, popularly known by his screen name as Akshay Kumar, has disclosed that he drinks cow urine everyday to ''protect himself from diseases.''
The 53-year-old actor believes that the animal’s waste has medicinal benefits that fight diseases, including the dreaded Coronavirus. A thought shared by...
Oxford University Coronavirus vaccine trial has been paused after a participant had a suspected adverse reaction in the UK.
Spokesman for AstraZeneca, the company working with a team from Oxford University said the trial was placed on hold after to review the “potentially unexplained illness” in one of the participants.
The spokesperson told Guardian;
“As...
India has surpassed Brazil on Monday September 7, to become the second-worst affected country in the world hit by coronavirus.
A total of 90,802 new cases were registered overnight, taking the total number of cases to 4,204,613. India were able to go from three to four million cases in 13 days, while...
A French man, Alain Cocq, 57, with an incurable illness who unsuccessfully tried to convince France President Emmanuel Macron to allow him to die by "active medical assistance" says he wants to live stream his own death on Facebook.
Alain Cocq, from Dijon in eastern France, has a rare incurable...
The Nigerian Union in South Africa (NUSA) Says 11 Nigerians have so far died of COVID-19 in the country.
In a statement released, the president of the union, Adetola Olubajo, said that the COVID-19 deaths were for Gauteng Province alone, adding that the union is yet to receive figures from eight other provinces...
Paris Saint-Germain team-mates, Neymar, Angel Di Maria, and Leandro Paredes have reportedly tested positive for Coronavirus.
The Ligue 1 champions did not name the players involved, but Neymar, Angel Di Maria, and Leandro Paredes are believed to be the three players to have tested positive, as reported by French outlet,...
The National Agency for Foods and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye has disclosed that 40 herbal drugs are currently undergoing a review as possible Coronavirus cure.
Adeyeye who disclosed that the herbal drugs are undergoing review to ensure their safety for use, averred that if the herbal drugs are not...
India has seen a large spike in number of new Coronavirus cases after 77,226 infections were recorded in the last 24 hours, the highest single-day caseload in the world.
India now has a total of more than 3.38 million cases since the start of the pandemic with 46 percent of...
Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye has disclosed that Chloroquine kills Coronavirus in its early stage.
Adeyeye who also revealed that reliable researches and reports shows that Remdesivir kills the virus at late stages, added that the cost for treating people with chloroquine...
The University of Alabama has reported 531 Coronavirus cases on campus since starting classes on August 19.
The positive cases were reported on the university system’s COVID-19 dashboard, which reflects on-campus testing results and self-reported private lab results but does not include the entry testing conducted when school restarted, according...
Jamaica's health ministry has confirmed that eight-time Olympic gold medalist, Usain Bolt has tested positive for Coronavirus, after the retired Jamaican sprinter revealed he was self-isolating following his 34th birthday party in Jamaica.
The cconfirmation was announced on Monday night, August 24, after Bolt, who holds world records in the 100m and 200m, shared a video...
Sweden‘s Public Health Agency on Tuesday August 25, announced that it has uncovered 3,700 false Coronavirus positive results linked to a faulty test kit.
The PCR kits linked to the error which was discovered by two laboratories during routine quality controls, were made in China by the company BGI Genomics and had been distributed worldwide.
According...
The World Health Organisation today August 25, declared Africa free of the wild polio virus.
The body declared the continent free of the virus after no case of the viral disease was recorded since 2016.
In a statement jointly signed by WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus; and President of Rotary International, Holger Knaack,...
The world's largest ovarian tumour has been removed from a woman in India.
The tumor, weighing 110lbs and as heavy as a 15-year-old boy was removed from a 52-year-old woman at the private Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in Delhi.
The woman, who did not wish to be publicly named had noticed her weight...
Nollywood actress Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde has opened up on her Coronavirus experience while reacting to a debate on how Nollywood can adhere strictly to the health guidelines of COVID-19 before reopening productions on the popular filmmakers’ WhatsApp group, Filmic.
Vanguard reported that the veteran actress said she was treated by some infectious decease doctors who told her...
An expert has warned that Coronavirus will be present "forever".
Sir Mark Walport, a member of the Government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), also said that people are likely to need regular vaccinations against the deadly virus.
Walport, who is a former chief scientific adviser, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme, that the pandemic would...
The wife and two children of a man who died of Coronavirus have reportedly committed suicide after they were shunned by relatives and friends following his death.
Parimi Snuneetha, 50, her son Narasaiah Phanikumar, 25, and 23-year-old daughter Lakshmi Aparna, ended their lives by jumping off a bridge in Andhra...
A bill legalizing a toxic bleach as a cure for Coronavirus treatment has been approved by the lower house of Bolivia’s legislature.
According to local media reports, the country’s Legislative Assembly approved the bill, which had already passed the Bolivian Senate despite reports of people being hospitalised after taking it.
The...
The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Friday August 14, announced that 329 new cases of Coronavirus were recorded in the country.
A breakdown of the new cases across states in the country is as follows; Lagos-113, Kaduna-49, FCT-33, Plateau-24, Kano-16, Edo-15, Ogun-14, Delta-13, Osun-10, Oyo-8, Ekiti-6, Bayelsa-6, Akwa Ibom-5, Borno-4,...
Russia president Vladimir Putin, has announced that his country has finally approved the world’s first Covid-19 vaccine, saying he has tested it on his daughter and it worked.
According to Putin, the vaccine was developed at Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute, with large-scale production of the vaccine projected to start in September,...
US President, Donald Trump, has fulfiled his promise to provide Nigeria with 200 ventilators.
Trump in a telephone chat with President Buhari in April, promised to provide Nigeria with the ventilators.
The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, received the ventilators on behalf of the Federal government on Tuesday August 11.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed that the novel Coronavirus is proving exceptionally difficult to stop, as the number of cases approaches 20 million with over 700,000 deaths as at today Monday, August 10.
Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization’s Health Emergencies Programme, speaking during...
Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo underwent Covid-19 test over the weekend at his residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
The former president has received many guests of late, hence the test.
His media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi said the test came back negative.
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There was mild drama at the Oyo State isolation centre Saturday, August 8, when a recovered COVID-19 patient refused to go home with her father, choosing instead to go with a soldier she met at the isolation centre.
About 20 people were discharged from the Infectious Disease Centre in Olodo,...
Kenyan communication executive, Doreen Moracha has shared a brief insight on her experience of living with HIV for 28 years.
In a birthday post she shared, Doreen who disclosed that she has been living with the disease since was born, said she was officially diagnosed with the disease on her...
Senator Kashamu Buruji has died. Buruji died yesterday August 8 after a battle with the novel Coronavirus. He was 62-years-old
His former colleague, Senator Ben Murray-Bruce announced his passing on Twitter this evening.
''I have just lost my good friend of forever to #COVID19. Until his death, Sen. Buruji Kashamu and I...
Police officers in the Apapa Area Command of Lagos State intercepted a 40-foot container filled with drugs suspected to be Tramadol and Codeine.
The container was intercepted on water and taken to a bonded terminal in Apapa, Channels TV reports.
A team of officers from Customs and the National Drug Law Enforcement...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Friday July 31, announced that 462 new cases of Coronavirus were confirmed across the country.
A breakdown of the new cases across states is as follows; FCT-93, Lagos-78, Plateau-64, Kaduna-54, Oyo-47, Ondo-32, Adamawa-23, Bauchi-19, Rivers-9, Ogun-9, Delta-9, Edo-7 , Kano-6, Enugu-6, Nasarawa-5, Osun-1.
There...
The entire population of a Spanish village with about 200 residents has been put into quarantine today after a 12-year-old girl tested positive for Coronavirus.
Fernando Resino Carrillo, the mayor of Sotillo de las Palomas explained the decision, saying the vast majority of the 200 residents fall into the risk...
Rahmat Abdullahi, the Council Secretary of Abuja Municipal Area Council revealed that she contracted Covid-19 "in the course of service" and she infected her daughter.
She explained that it was a period of "indescribable pain and trauma".
Thankfully, both mother and daughter are better now and have returned home.
She wrote: "I contracted...
China recorded 57 local Covid-19 cases on Sunday, the highest number the country has seen since it brought the coronavirus largely under control in March, according to figures released by the National Health Commission on Monday.
Out of the new locally transmitted cases, 41 were found in the far western...
Patients who are billed to undergo surgical procedures at the Federal Government-owned Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, are being mandated to equip their surgeons before they can be scheduled for their surgeries.
The patients are required to buy disposable goggles, face masks, disposable gowns, polypropylene mesh and Home Medical Equipment...
