The first death has been reported outside of China, in the Philippines, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines The international organisation, which made the disclosure in a report on Sunday, February 2, 2020, stated that the patient was a close contact of the first patient confirmed in the Philippines. The deceased, a 44-year-old ...

 Italian scientists at the National Institute for Infectious Diseases have isolated the rapidly spreading coronavirus, Italian media reported on Sunday, February 2, 2020. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO). Photo credit: AFP / FABRICE COFFRINI / Getty Images This is coming even as the number of confirmed cases tops 14,000 in more than two dozen ...

China saw a sharp rise in deaths from coronavirus on Sunday, as official statistics put the number of fatalities at 304, up from 259 a day earlier. An health official attend to a coronavirus patient in China Confirmed cases of the virus rose to 14,380, according to state media, with the majority of new cases in Hubei, the central Chinese ...

Nigeria, with the help of the World Health Organisation (WHO), acquired in-country capacity to test for coronavirus. Dr. Osagie Ehanire, Health Minister Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, said this in a statement issued by Mrs Enefaa Bob-Manuel, the Head of Media and Public Relations in the ministry on Sunday, February 2, 2020 in Abuja. Ehanire, who thanked WHO for ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has joined other world leaders in expressing his support and good wishes to President Xi Jinping and citizens of the People’s Republic of China as the country battles to overcome the outbreak of coronavirus. President Muhammadu Buhari The president’s made his feelings known in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba ...

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, has debunked the rumours making the round over a case of novel coronavirus in the state, saying that there is no suspected or confirmed case of the virus. Prof. Akin Abayomi, Lagos State Commissioner for Health Abayomi gave the clarification in a statement issued on Sunday, February 2, 2020 in Lagos. ...

A Paris court has decided not to hear what looks like a landmark case where French oil and gas company, Total, was taken to court by civil society over human rights abuses and environmental violations linked to its oil-related activities in western Uganda. Total is participating in the controversial East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) project, in partnership with Tullow ...

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany’s southern state of Bavaria has risen to six, after a child was found to have been infected. An health official attend to a coronavirus patient The child’s father had also fallen ill with the new coronavirus, the Bavarian Health Ministry said on Friday, January 31, 2020. The virus originated in China and has ...

The Federal Government will not stop Nigerians from travelling to China or any other country where coronavirus has manifested. Alhaji Lai Mohammed Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made this known while addressing newsmen shortly after a meeting of the inter-ministerial and multi sectoral committee on coronavirus held at the Ministry of Health, Abuja on Friday, January 31, ...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Thursday, January 30, 2020 launched a fund-raising campaign to rescue the nature and wildlife in Australia amid devastating bushfires, the official WAM News Agency reported. The burnt bodies of hundreds of animals line a road in Australia The Emirates Nature-WWF (World Wildlife Fund) said in a statement that the funds raised through the campaign ...