COVID-19 cases

French outfit Olympique de Marseille have detected three new suspected cases of COVID-19 among the club’s staff, the Ligue 1 team announced on Tuesday. SEE ALSO: Lalong bans Commercial Tricycles in Plateau over COVID-19 Pandemic Marseille…

Plateau recorded the highest number of COVID-19 cases on Wednesday with 186 new infections, as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reported 593 new cases in the country. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle.…

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 354 new cases of COVID-19 in the country, bringing the total number of COVID-19 infections to 45,244.The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Thursday.The…

The COVID-19 cases rose 672 within one day to 31,186 in Indonesia, with the death toll adding by 50 to 1,851, a Health Ministry official told a press conference in Jakarta on Sunday.Achmad Yurianto said that 591 more people…

Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra says there are currently eight active COVID-19 cases being treated at Protective Care Centres in the state. The governor also said 69 persons were on home isolation while two others were at the state’s…

The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19,  says Nigeria is yet to reach the “peak” of COVID-19 infections.The chairmen of PTF and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Mr Boss Mustapha, disclosed this at the…

Russia has confirmed 8,946 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, raising its total infections to 353,427, its coronavirus response centre said in a statement on Monday.The death toll grew by 92 to 3,633, while 118,798…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday reported that COVID-19 cases in Africa as at May 21, had risen to over 95, 000.WHO Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, gave the update on its official twitter…

Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Oyo State have increased to 137 as 19 more people tested positive on Monday, latest figures released by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control(NCDC) have revealed.In the figures released on Monday night, the…

French schools have registered 70 COVID-19 cases since some of them were allowed to reopen last week, French Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer said on Monday.Under the government’s lockdown exit plan, 40,000 primary…

The Ogun government says it will extend the current lockdown in the state by another one week.Gov. Dapo Abiodun made this known while addressing journalists on Friday evening in Abeokuta.He said it had become expedient to further…

The Osun government has confirmed three new cases of coronavirus in the state.The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Rafiu Isamotu, in a statement on Wednesday in Osogbo, said that the new cases were contacts of previously confirmed…

Gov. Abubakar Bello of Niger on Tuesday said the state had recorded 10 positive cases of the novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the state.Bello, at a media briefing on COVID-19 pandemic in Minna, explained that the state received…

Zambia on Tuesday reported 174 new COVID-19 cases.About 338 samples were assessed on May 9 and May 10 in the country.The new cases were recorded in different parts of the country, including a border town with Tanzania which has…

The World Health Organisation (WHO), says COVID-19 cases have risen to over 63, 000 in Africa as at May 11, from the 53, 000 reported on May 8. WHO Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, gave the update on its official twitter…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the number of reported COVID-19 cases in Africa increased from 46,500 to 49,000 in the past 24 hours.The WHO Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, gave the update on its…

Mr Bunmi Makinwa, former Regional Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has expressed fears over possible escalations of COVID-19 pandemic cases in Nigeria following the gradual easing of lockdown.…

Katsina State Government has announced that 37 new cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in the State, bringing the total number to 75 on Monday.This was disclosed by the Governor of Katsina State, Amin Masari, while…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the number of reported COVID-19 cases in the WHO Africa Region has increased to over 44,000. The WHO Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, gave the update on its official twitter account…

The number of COVID-19 cases, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus, in India crossed 40,000 marks on Sunday evening.The death toll due to the pandemic meanwhile has reached 1,306.With 2,487 positive cases…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the number of reported COVID-19 cases in the WHO African Region has increased from 33, 000 to over 34, 000 in the past 24 hours.The WHO Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo…

The Plateau government is investigating the circumstances surrounding the leak of the confidential laboratory result of some suspected COVID-19 cases carried out at the National Veterinary Research Institute (NVRI) Testing Centre in Vom.…

The Northwest Caucus of Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), on Friday, hailed the contributions of doctors and other health workers in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic but expressed worry that the zone is becoming the next…

The Kano State Ministry of Health on Monday says the state has recorded 23 additional cases of COVID-19 virus infection.It also says in its verified Twitter [email protected] that the fresh cases have put the number of infected persons in…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, says the number of Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Africa has increased to over 11,900. The UN’s health agency gave the update on its official…

Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health, on Thursday, reported 54 new COVID-19 infections and two more deaths, raising the number of total cases in the country to 2,423 and the death toll to 32.The two new deaths involved two Thai men aged…

Indonesian citizens are now required to wear face masks when they are outside, the government announced on Sunday, as the number of COVID-19 cases rose to 2,273.Achmad Yurianto, the government spokesman for issues relating to the…