Air Peace Boeing 777-200ER(P4 5N-BVE) landed in Beijing International Airport, China at 14:18pm on 7th April 2020 for the airlift of Federal Government medical supplies to help combat the pandemic coronavirus.
This is the first recorded Nigerian airline travelling a 14hours direct nonstop flight to China with all six-man crew Nigerians.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says the molecular diagnostic laboratories for the testing of coronavirus in four northern states of Maiduguri, Jos, Kano and Kaduna will be set for operation at the end of this week.
Nigeria has on Sunday recorded 10 new cases of COVID-19 as the total number of infected persons sum up to 224. According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), the new cases were reported in Lagos, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Edo.
Enugu state government mourns with the family of late Health Commissioner Anthony Ugochukwu who reportedly died on Friday in a private facility at Memfys Hospital, Enugu. The late commissioner was said to have been battling an undisclosed ailment for some time which had kept him out of duty.
Residents in Osun state were thrown into pandemonium this morning as six persons who have been tested positive for COVID-19 escaped from the Ejigbo, isolation centre of the state last night.
Nigeria as recorded a total of 20 recovery cases of COVID-19 after the Lagos State Ministry of Health discharged 11 patients from the Infectious Disease Centre, Yaba, however, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced 10 new cases bringing the total to 184.
