Health

The resident medical doctors at the Ondo State University Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Akure, have commenced a warning strike following alleged non-payment of their salaries by the state government. The doctors began the strike on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020, and threatened to embark on an indefinite strike on Nov. 9, 2020, if the government failed to respond to their demands. According to the medical workers, the state government allegedly owes them four months’ salaries. The distressed doctors decried a situation where other health workers under the health management board are receiving their salaries regularly except them who are allegedly left out.

In the last three months, Nigerian health officials had not reported a daily figure higher than 300 infections. Nigeria has recorded a total infection so far as 62,000 out of which 57,000 persons have recovered from the deadly virus. This means that about 3,000 cases are still active in the country.

The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has disclosed that the total cases of the coronavirus infection in the country have just jumped to 60,834 after 179 new cases were recorded yesterday.

The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has yesterday reported the lowest tally of the coronavirus infection in the last seven months with 58 new cases in nine states across the federation. With the new record, the total infected persons in Nigeria now stand at 59,394.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says in a fresh record that the country's new case for the COVID-19 has sharply decreased from the 221 and 189 recorded on Friday and Saturday respectively to 97 yesterday. Accordingly, the record is one of the lowest recorded cases of the coronavirus in the last six months.

The very first case of Coronavirus (COVID-19) to have entered Africa has been detected in Egypt on Friday, Feb. 14 after a "foreigner tested positive. The case was detected through a follow-up programme implemented by the Egyptian government for travellers arriving from countries where the virus has spread. The infected man, whose identity and profile has remained unknown so far has since been quarantined in a hospital.