WORLD NEWS

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s chief of staff, Abba Kyari has succumbed to coronavirus. Kyari, who was in his 70s, had underlying health conditions including diabetes and died of Covid-19 on Friday, Reuters reported. He was the senior-most official aide to President Buhari, 77, and one of…

Nigeria has begun evacuating over 2,000 Nigerian citizens who have expressed their wish to leave the US, UK and other European countries affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs minister Godfrey Onyeama said they have contracted two airlines to fly their citizens home from these…

An American bishop who defied social distancing and continued to hold church services in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic has been killed by the disease, according to reports in the US. The New Deliverance Evangelistic Church in Virginia on Sunday announced Bishop Gerald Glenn had succumbed to…

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been discharged from hospital, a week after his admission over the coronavirus disease.  Johnson left St Thomas' Hospital in London on Sunday and will not resume work until he fully recuperates, Downing Street said. "I have today left hospital after a week…

An Italian woman aged 104 years has recovered from coronavirus, becoming the oldest known Covid-19 survivor in the world. Ada Zanusso tested positive for Covid-19 last month after falling ill in a nursing home in Biella, where 20 elderly residents have since succumbed to the virus, according to the…

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been moved to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) after his health condition deteriorated. This comes a day after he was admitted to St Thomas' Hospital in London on Sunday night for what Downing Street termed as “further tests.” His doctor advised him to go to the…

Chinese billionaire Jack Ma has donated additional medical equipment to Africa to help in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Ma, through Twitter on Monday, said his second donation to Africa includes 500 ventilators, 200,000 suits and face shields, 2,000 thermometers, one million swabs,…

A four-year-old Malayan tiger has tested positive for coronavirus in the United States, becoming the first of her kind to contract the disease. The female tiger named Nadia was tested for Covid-19 after developing a dry cough at the Bronx Zoo in New York, according to Wildlife Conservation Society’…

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been admitted to hospital ten days after he was diagnosed with coronavirus, according to reports. Johnson, 55, has persistent symptoms including high temperature and was taken to hospital on Sunday evening on the advice of his doctor, BBC reports. A Downing…

A French doctor has issued an apology for suggesting that a possible coronavirus treatment/vaccine should first be tested in Africa. Jean-Paul Mira, the head of the intensive care unit at the Cochin Hospital in Paris, made the controversial remarks during a television interview. “If I could be…