COVID-19
WHO DG in Quarantine After Contact Tests Positive for COVID-19
The World Health Organization (WHO), Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus has revealed that he is self-quarantining after someone he had been in contact with tested positive for COVID-19.
The WHO Director-General disclosed this via his official twitter handle.
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Ghebreyesus said that he is well and without symptoms but will self-quarantine over the coming days, in line with the protocols of the World Health Organization(WHO) and work from home.
He stressed the importance of complying with health guidance in other to break chains of #covid19 transmission, suppress the virus, and protect health systems.
Tedros has been at the forefront of the United Nations Health Agency’s efforts to battle the pandemic. Which has claimed nearly 1.2 million lives and infected over 46 million people worldwide.
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All four areas across the Bristol region have recorded a significant increase in coronavirus cases as figures surge across the UK.
Bath and North East Somerset recorded 82 new cases making it a total of 6,684, Bristol, 262 more making it a total of 24,498, North Somerset, 100 more cases making it a total of 8,044 and
South Gloucestershire, 141 more making it a total of 11,756.
The UK has recorded another 1,610 coronavirus deaths in a single day which is the highest so far since the pandemic started.
Across Bristol and its neighbouring areas, six more people have died.
Two more people died in South Gloucestershire, where 141 positive lab tests were returned.
And one death was recorded in Bath and North East Somerset.
It has also been confirmed that there are 404 Covid inpatients in Bristol’s wards.
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In its effort to stem the rise in the number of COVID-19 cases, The Kano State Government on Tuesday directed all civil servants in the state to stay at home pending further directive.
It also imposed a fresh ban on the activities of viewing and event centres across the 44 local government areas of the state following the increasing number of COVID-19 cases recents
A statement issued and signed by the Commissioner for Information, Comrade Muhammad Garba, and made available to pressmen on Tuesday, noted that the measure was part of the decision adopted at a stakeholders meeting held at the Africa House, Kano on Monday.
Also, in the statement, Garba disclosed that workers on essential services such as the healthcare service providers, fire service, water board, teaching staff, security guards and the media are exempted from the directive.
Furthermore, the Commissioner reaffirmed government’s commitment to collaborating with relevant stakeholders which include the Ulama to ensure compliance with the COVID-19 preventive protocols.
He warned that security agents who were part of the stakeholders meeting would not hesitate to take stern measures to ensure compliance with the directive.
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has recorded 1,444 new cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country
The NCDC disclosed this on its official website late on Sunday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the country has tested 1,154,138 people since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was recorded on Feb. 27, 2020.
According to the public health agency, the new infections has taken the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 110,387, which includes 89,317 discharged cases and 1,435 deaths.
The agency said the 1,444 new cases were registered from 20 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in the past 24 hours.
The health agency reported 15 COVID-19 related deaths in the past 24 hours.
According to it, Lagos, Plateau, and Kaduna recorded the highest number of COVID-19 infections on Sunday, with 901, 136, and 57 cases respectively.
Other states with new cases were, FCT-54, Ebonyi-53, Akwa Ibom-52, Nasarawa-32, Osun-29, Ogun-28, Imo-16, Oyo-16, Edo-15, Kano-14, Rivers-10, Ekiti-7, Borno-6, Abia-f5, Benue-4, Yobe-4, Kebbi-3, and Anambra-2.
The NCDC disclosed that 3,950 patients were discharged from isolation centres across the country after the second test result returned negative.
It added that the discharge included 717 community recoveries in Lagos State and a backlog of 2,825 community recoveries in FCT managed in line with guidelines.
NCDC said that a multi-sectoral national Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), activated at Level 3, was coordinating response activities nationwide
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