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Pandemonium broke out in Azare, Bauchi state, over a report that 300 lives were claimed by a yet to be identified strange outbreak in the town.

The Federal Government has reiterated that the COVID-19 global pandemic is far from being over in the country.

The Federal Government has raised alarm about a potential increase in the spread of COVID-19 yesterday, probably occasioned by reported flagrant disregard for its guidelines on the relaxation of the five-week lockdown of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Lagos and Ogun States, cautioning that should the situation continue it will have no choice but to shut down the country.

The Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals (NUAHP) has yesterday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to reconsider his decision of easing up the partial lockdown which he announced to take effect on 4th May.

The governor of Kaduna state, Mallam Nasir El-Rufa’i said out of the 59 active cases of coronavirus in Kaduna state, 50 of them were found among the repatriated Almajiris that were returned from Kano state.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed an additional 170 confirmed new cases bringing the toll of infection in Nigeria to 2,558.